Re: changing default handling of line graphics mode

[Thomas Dickey]

----- Original Message -----
| From: "Mike Frysinger" <address@hidden>
| To: address@hidden
| Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2018 10:56:29 PM
| Subject: changing default handling of line graphics mode
| 
| currently ncurses treats terminals that don't support line drawing
| modes as the degenerate case.  but with the world moving to UTF-8
| everywhere as the normal, can't we can flip this logic on its head?
| specifically, if we detect that the current encoding supports UTF-8,
| we simply use standard Unicode codepoints.
| 
| terminals like mosh only run in UTF-8, and some are starting to
| support DOCS to transition to a UTF-8-only mode on the fly:
|       https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#term
| -mike
| 
| --- a/ncurses/tinfo/lib_setup.c
| +++ b/ncurses/tinfo/lib_setup.c
| @@ -611,8 +611,10 @@ _nc_locale_breaks_acs(TERMINAL *termp)
|               CONTROL_O(set_attributes)) {
|               result = 1;
|           }
| -     }
| -    }
| +     } else if (_nc_unicode_locale())
| +         result = 1;
| +    } else if (_nc_unicode_locale())
| +     result = 1;
|      returnCode(result);
|  }

why should I add a bug to ncurses, to compensate for others' defects?

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