tlug: ncurses and kterm and japanese characters

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Fredric" == Fredric Fredricson <Fredric.Fredriksson@example.com> writes:

    Fredric> I am browsing all documentation I can find but not a word
    Fredric> about switching character sets or fonts or anything.

Put the kterm into ISO-2022 mode.  I don't know how you can do this
from ncurses, but I'm pretty sure kterm supports some kind of
mode-changing escape sequences.

To get Japanese, spit ESC $ B, then JIS codes ("#1#2#3" is a favorite
of mine, giving full-width digits), then ESC ( B at the kterm, however
you do that in ncurses.  I don't see why it would be any different
from an ASCII string.

In Shift-JIS or EUC mode, you just need to use the right character
codes.  kterm handles all the rest (the fonts and so on).  The
advantage of ISO-2022 mode is that you can use Latin-1 characters, but 
you have to use the ISO-2022 character set designation sequences.

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