Display wchar_t using ncurses

Question

i\'m currently working on a C++ project in which I need to display some extended characters (wchar_t).

The main problem is that, even if it works fine in C (using

Answer 1

You need to setlocale(LC_ALL, "") before doing initscr().

A working example:

#include <ncursesw/ncurses.h>
#include <locale.h>
#include <wchar.h>

int main() {  
    setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
    initscr();
    wchar_t wstr[] = { 9474, L'\0' };
    mvaddwstr(0, 0, wstr);
    refresh();
    getch();
    endwin();
    return 0;
}