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

[Thorsten Glaser]

Thomas Dickey dixit:

>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.

xterm apparently doesn’t handle them either:

address@hidden:~ $ print 
'\033(0++\,\,--..00``aaffgghhiijjkkllmmnnooppqqrrssttuuvvwwxxyyzz{{||}}~~'
++\,\,--..00◆◆▒▒°°±±␤␤␋␋┘┘┐┐┌┌└└┼┼⎺⎺⎻⎻──⎼⎼⎽⎽├├┤┤┴┴┬┬││≤≤≥≥ππ≠≠££··

The only ones working which are not in terminfo are ‘hh’ thusly. Apparently,
wide ncurses are used for that or something.

bye,
//mirabilos
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