Adding Unicode/UTF8 chars to a ncurses display in C

Question

I\'m attempting to add wchar_t Unicode characters to an ncurses display in C.

I have an array:

wchar_t characters[]={L\'\\uE030\', L\'\\uE029\'}; //          


        

Answer 1

The wide character support is handled by ncursesw. Depending on your distro, ncurses may or may not point there (seemingly not in yours).

Try using -lncursesw instead of -lncurses.

Also, for the locale, try calling setlocale(LC_ALL, "")