Re: ncurses v5.5 - some problems

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 07:26:42PM +0200, ThMO wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've decided to upgrade ncurses from v4.2 -> v5.5 and there were
> two problems:
> 
> ? ./configure --disable-largefile
> 
>   the symbol _LARGE_FILES gets defined, which shouldn't with the
>   above option

thanks (fix in tonight's patch)
 
> ? TERM=linux
> 
>   the ACS settings for *all* given linux entries imply, that the
>   symbols from cp437 are present, which isn't true, if someone
>   loads an iso-latin-1 console font, in order to display european
>   umlaut characters, which means that all boxes look very ugly,
>   since the characters displayed are french accented characters...
>   (those were displayed wrong even with ncurses v4.2 and my hope
>    was, that it would get corrected)
> 
>   I've attached a small terminfo source defining another entry
>   called `linux2', which solves the problem by using the ascii ACS
>   characters for displaying box characters

perhaps linux-nacs (linux2 isn't very descriptive).
 
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