Re: UTF-8 and some issues...

Hi again,
I am back with some news and some new questions...

First,

Stéphane Bisinger <metal_kj-/[email protected]> wrote:

> I am trying to see how hard it could be to make
> centericq working with utf-8.

Now I can see more clearly the whole issue and I think
that in a couple of months it could be feasible, even
less if somebody is to join me on this effort!

I downloaded utf8cpp (the library in the article
someone mentioned), but it is just for utf8 and it
does not work with wchar_t types (which is what I
need). I think I will do a string class on my own that
works just like the string class, but with wchar_t
instead of char as a type. This way we could handle
not only utf-8, but most (if not all) wide-character
encodings.

My next major issue is the following: how do you
recognise, for example, a ctrl-x key combination from
a normal x?
Searching for an answer I could only understand that
from ctrl-a to ctrl-z translate to ascii 01 through 26
and that from alt-q to alt-m translate in a 0016
through 0050 sequence of characters. I also found that
sometimes the alt key sets the 8th bit of ASCII.
Dealing with ncurses, the library is able to recognize
such key presses, but I could not understand how.
Do you have any pointer to some valid documentation on
these issues? In particular that ctrl/alt keypress
recognition is important to understand how to handle
keyboard shortcuts...
I tried to look for some more detailed information on
ioctl(0, TIOCLINUX, 6); but without success...

Does anybody have some information on how to use
ncurses with wide-character support? I found NOTHING
about it, I only know that ncursesw has the same
interface as ncurses, but nothing more... I would be
thankful also for that!

Oh one more question: are you still having troubles
with the configure script/Makefiles?
If I try to deactivate some protocols, configure
fails... Is that a known problem with the CVS version
or do you need my output?

I can think of no more questions for now... Thank you!

P.S.: I am concentrating on the editor for now, I hope
to send you some patches very soon!


Stéphane


	
	
		
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