Re: bug in the alternate character set output

[Alexei Malinin]

Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Sep 2011, Alexei Malinin wrote:
>>> But your example isn't doing that. It's assigning it to the alternate
>>> character set's entry in the "|" position.
>>
>> These sentences are unclear for me. In my test terminal description
>> I wrote that ACS_VLINE should be displayed as "|" (ASCII decimal 124).
>> Please see below.
>
> But it won't do that.  Only if the terminal description's
> smacs/rmacs/enacs are empty will the expected display from acsc
> mappings _be_ the same as the second character in each pair.

O! I did not know about that. Is this behavior documented somewhere?
Is this behavior a bug or a feature?

I made quick checks. My test program displayed the box correctly
for a terminal description without smacs/rmacs/enacs and with "acsc=q-x|".


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Alexei Malinin