Re: ISO 2022 in terminals

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, 5 Feb 2011, Keith Winstein wrote:

> If you run it natively under xterm, it looks fine. If I run it under "LANG=C 
> luit", the first half of each ACS block looks fine but the second half is in 
> ASCII, I think because the shift state isn't being restored.

something like that (luit's design limits the types of shifts it supports,
so vttest will probably never look right in that screen).

> (And if I just run "luit" by itself (with, e.g., LANG=en_US.UTF-8), none of 
> the ACS characters work right because luit is just translating from UTF-8 to 
> UTF-8.)

But I've used it with ncurses, by modifying luit to set 
NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS.  Ordinary termcap applications won't know about that.

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