Re: Question on Unicode characters reading and printing

From: Pascal Bourguignon (spam_at_mouse-potato.com)
Date: 09/13/05 

Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 13:06:22 +0200

"SAM" <mshyamrao@gmail.com> writes:
>> So you're using the LC_CTYPE environment variable value. What is it?
>> Are you sure it's an UTF-8 variation? Why don't you set explicitely
>> the locate to an UTF-8 locale or use a UTF-8 conversion routine?
>>
> I have set LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 and ran setlocale(LC_CTYPE,"");
>
>> > w_example=(wchar_t *) malloc(100);
>> > mbstowcs(w_example,example,MB_CUR_MAX);
>
> Conversion to wide character string is happening. How should I print
> those characters. I cant seem to print it on my console when I set
> LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8.

Well, of course, if you want to print on a UTF-8 terminal, you must
convert back TO utf-8, not to utf-32. So why didn't you keep the
utf-8 bytes? Do you need to do string processing on these data?

> I know this is language setting issue. How can I
> know different language support on SCO Unixware or indeed is it
> supported on SCO Unixware. How to configure console for various
> languagees. I am using xterm.
> I tried xterm -u8 but no luck not working.

Yes, you must locate a utf-8 enabled terminal, and if an X terminal
emulator, you'll need to have internationnal X fonts installed.

mlterm is a multi-lingual X terminal emulator that is able to work
with utf-8. http://mlterm.sourceforge.net/

Also, you can work in emacs, and configure the utf-8 encodings in
emacs to be able to display the unicode characters. You'll need X
international fonts or emacs intlfonts too. 

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