Internationalized Curses

Digital UNIX supplies an internationalized Curses library in conformance with X/Open Curses, Issue 4. This provides functions for processing single-byte and multibyte characters. Multibyte characters may be in either wide-character (wchar_t) or complex-character (cchar_t) formats. The complex-character format provides for a single logical character made up of multiple wide characters. Some of the components of the complex character may be nonspacing characters.

For information on the syntax and effect of all Curses interfaces, see curses(3). For a description of the enhancements provided by the internationalized Curses routines, and their relationship to previous Curses routines, see the guide, Writing Software for the International Market.