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Re: 'v' character instead of ACS_DARROW in xterm


From: Katarina Machalkova
Subject: Re: 'v' character instead of ACS_DARROW in xterm
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:47:15 +0100
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> ncurses uses the terminal description for the narrow interface, arguably
> because even if it "knows" what the Unicode values are, the developer
> may intend a different mapping than ncurses' built-in table. 

But I don't intend to use different mapping ;-) For me, arrow characters are 
significant e.g. in menus or combo-boxes.
So the only way how to make ncurses app display arrows in xterm is to link 
against wide version of libncurses (ncursesw) and use corresponding WACS's ?

B.
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