Curses

Ruby
1

I am an elementary user of ruby,i meet a problem about ruby curses.
source code as follow:

require “curses”
include Curses
init_screen
begin
crmode
echo
ch = getstr #problem occurred here
noecho
ensure
close_screen
end

I input some 2-byte-word (like chinese word) from the keyboard,but the
screen do not show the right result, finally I find that :

  1. I input only one 2-byte-word from the keyboard , the screen show me
    the first byte of the word but abandon the another byte of the word .
  2. I input two 2-byte-words from the keyboard, the second byte of each
    of the two 2-byte-words was abandoned, and the screen show me the result
    that it recompose a 2-byte-word by the first byte of each of the two
    2-byte-words
2

It sounds like curses doesn’t support unicode I looked around a little
bit on google and it looks like if you download the curses source code,
there is a way to compile it with unicode support. See the cached page
here:

http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:hI2PRe3SbOoJ:nullref.se/blog/2006/5/9/ruby-curses-unicode+ruby+unicode+curses&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=safari

3

On Oct 2, 2007, at 11:39 PM, 7stud – wrote:

+curses&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=safari

Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

You might want to check out the recent Ncurses book from Dan Gookin.
It’s in C, but so is curses anyway.
It should be adaptable to the Ruby gem version…

4

thank you very much!
but i can call addstr to show chinese word!

5

7stud – wrote:

It sounds like curses doesn’t support unicode I looked around a little
bit on google and it looks like if you download the curses source code,
there is a way to compile it with unicode support. See the cached page
here:

http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:hI2PRe3SbOoJ:nullref.se/blog/2006/5/9/ruby-curses-unicode+ruby+unicode+curses&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=safari

i am sorry about that i cann’t access the url above!

6

thank you all very much!
I solve the problem with another way to get the chinese word input by
using readline.so!