'v' character instead of ACS_DARROW in xterm

[Katarina Machalkova]

Hi, ncurses hackers,

This is maybe dumb q., but neverethless: 
I don't really understand why xterm keeps displaying 'v' character instead of 
down arrow (ACS_DARROW), similarly it displays '>' instead of right arrow and 
so on. If I set 'TERM=linux',  I can see ACS_*ARROW characters just fine.

I know there are some fallback ASCII characters in ncurses.h, used in case the 
terminal does not have some of ACS_* glyphs, but in this particular case, 
shouldn't '.' be displayed instead of down arrow?

It's quite annoying for the users of my app, as they keep confusing 'v' used 
instead of ACS_DARROW with a real letter 'v'. Is this a bug or a feature? And 
if it is a bug, in which component - xterm, font, ncurses library?
d

B.
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