Re: Wrong result of get_position()
- Posted by mattlewis (admin) Apr 26, 2011
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kinz said...
Dear EU-devs and users,
There is one problem in 4.0.2 same as in 3.1.1.
If I do get_position() after puts() of some mixed Russian/English text or pure Russian text in the Linux console using the utf-8 encoding, text is ok, but result of get_position() is wrong.
The interpreter simply tracks the number of characters output and updates based on that. It's not UTF-8 aware, so it doesn't know that some of your characters are multi-byte. I'm not aware of a way to otherwise track the cursor position without using curses or something similar.
kinz said...
Esc-command {27} & "[6n" works ok, but I do not know how to intercept its output into some variable in my EU program without printing on screen.
I'm not aware of a way to do this.
Matt
