Re: Interesting things found in ncurses that affect screen

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Michael Schroeder wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 09:19:38PM +0200, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
...
> Don't ask me, I'm not aware of any problems screen has with UTF-8.
> Maybe Thomas Dickey, the ncurses author, can shed some light on
> this.

The code's doing what it is intended: when screen is running in UTF-8 
mode, it ignores the termcap information, only accepts the UTF-8 encoding 
for line-drawing characters.  Normally the $TERM value gives the required 
information.  That function helps check for known cases where it does not.

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