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Re: terminals w/o UTF8 support (was Re: Bug#847809: ITP: tcvt -- multicolumn virtual terminal)



 ❦ 12 décembre 2016 20:51 +0100, Vincent Bernat <bernat@debian.org> :

>> Why -unicode, that's obvious.  Here's why -256color: thanks to a misdesign,
>> there's no way to detect 256 color support nor the used palette and trying
>> to use it when not supported results in visual breakage.
>
> Isn't that possible with terminfo? There is a "colors" property.

Forget my question, terminfo is deduced from TERM.
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