ncurses + Alt-keys + NLS characters + xterm

ncurses + Alt-keys + NLS characters + xterm

Post by Andy K » Thu, 20 Aug 1998 04:00:00



In an xterm, running cat, if I press Alt+A I get a with acute, ASCII code
of 'a' with 0x80 or-ed in.

In my ncurses program, I also get the same thing.

My dilemma is, when I get 0xa1 character from getch(), how do I know the user
wanted whatever Alt+A is supposed to do, or whether they wanted the NLS
character a with acute?

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???

        Dan Miller

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