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Using UTF-8 Support with ncurses on Windows Powershell in C

I' trying to use ncurses on Windows in C and wanted to use some UTF-8 Characters.

What I've tried so far: compiled in termux it's enough to use it like this and link it with -lncursesw:


#include <stdio.h>
#include <wchar.h> 
#include <ncurses.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    initscr();

    cbreak(); 
    refresh();
    mvaddstr(1, 0, "\xe2\x9c\x93");
    mvaddstr(2,0, "\xe2\x97\x8b");
    mvaddstr(3,0, "\xe2\x97\x8f");
    mvaddstr(4,0, "\xe2\x97\xaf");

    refresh(); //print screen
    getch(); //keep window open
    endwin(); 
    return 0;
}

Everything is as expected. But on Windows in doesn't work.

To print unicode in Windows Powershell I needed to set the to set SetConsoleOutputCP(CP_UTF8); explicite:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <Windows.h>

int main(void)
{
    SetConsoleOutputCP(CP_UTF8);
    printf("%s", "\xe2\x9c\x93");
    return 0;
}

But it doesn't work in combination with ncurses (it also not prints unicode characters). I tried it also with setlocale. Nothing helps.

Any suggestions?

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