在打印数组中使用扩展的ASCII字符

Question

How do I go about using extended ASCII characters in lieu of regular characters?

I'm making a pong game and currently have | characters making up the paddle, however I want ASCII 219 (a solid rectangle) to make it up. here's my code so far

    char right_paddle_chars[] = {   '|',
                                    '|', 
                                    '|', 
                                    '|',
                                    '|', 
                                    '|',
                                    '|',    };

    paddle_id = create_big_sprite(75, 10, 1, 7, right_paddle_chars);

Answer 1

"Extended ASCII" is a meaningless term which is used frequently. Perhaps you are referring to the graphics in one of the IBM codepages, eg, 850 (see MSDN , which shows "Code Page 850 MS-DOS Latin 1").

However, if you are using ncurses, you are likely using it on some non-DOS system (such as Unix, Linux or BSD), and most recent systems use UTF-8 encoding. Again, Microsoft documents the equivalents for Unicode (see MSDN ). Codepage 850's 0xdb maps to Unicode 0x2588 .

Using ncursesw (the wide-character flavor), you could have an array of wchar_t (wide-characters) holding the Unicode values of your choice, and print that as a string using addwstr .

Given that information, you can see that this question has been asked in a different fashion here: Output “█” with ncursesw in C .