reassign 254316 ncurses-base retitle 254316 ncurses-base: workaround for screen's handling of register sgr0 isn't quite right tag 254316 + upstream thanks Sorry for the unhelpful bug title; I don't quite understand *exactly* what the problem is. Nevertheless, my faith in Thomas and Juliusz is strong. On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 08:41:15PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 10:30:12PM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > > > This clobbers G1. It works in ISO 8859-n locales because there's a > > workaround in luit (luit uses G2 instead of G1 for such locales). > > While there's in principle nothing preventing the same workaround to > > work for Big5 locales, the problem with EUC will remain. > > > > The proper fix is to use the following in the xterm cap: > > > > enacs= > > rmacs=\E(B > > smacs=\E(0 > > > > This only uses G0, and works in any locale that has ASCII in G0, which > > includes all standard Unix locales. > > however - I noticed this week that my workaround for screen's handling > of sgr0 (termcap "me") doesn't work for this case. I made a fix tonight > (since I'm looking for similar issues), and _that_ will be in my next > ncurses patch -- but I'm not certain when I'll finish resolving ongoing > breakage in the form library (perhaps this weekend). > > > Branden: please reassign this to ncurses-base and mark it upstream. > > that's the proper place, since I've already made the changes in both xterm > and ncurses > > -- > Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net> > http://invisible-island.net > ftp://invisible-island.net -- G. Branden Robinson | There is resilient security in Debian GNU/Linux | openness, and brittle security in branden@debian.org | secrecy. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Bruce Schneier
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