Re: [Lynx-dev] uxterm vs GNU screen weirdness

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, 27 Sep 2008, Thorsten Glaser wrote:

> Thomas Dickey dixit:
>
> >            '``aaffggiijjkkllmmnnooppqqrrssttuuvvwwxxyyzz{{||}}~~'
> > '++\,\,--..00``aaffgghhiijjkkllmmnnooppqqrrssttuuvvwwxxyyzz{{||}}~~'.
> >
> > The left-arrows are mapped with
> >
> > #define ACS_LARROW      NCURSES_ACS(',') /* arrow pointing left */
> >
> > which means those escaped commas.  If xterm's _not_ in UTF-8 mode, then
> > none of the different mappings work, because none of them are VT100-compatible.
>
> So I basically have to ensure xterm is ALWAYS in UTF-8 mode¹, then change
> the terminfo/termcap database source, to fix this?

yes (that's a simple solution).  From my standpoint, I still have to 
support either configuration, so the solution isn't simple.

> ① which it is in MirBSD, since nl_langinfo(CODESET) invariablily returns
>  "UTF-8", similar for setlocale with LC_CTYPE

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