Re: Issue using more than 255 color pairs

[Bill Gray]

Hi Mike,  all,

On 7/16/23 18:00, Mike Gran wrote:> Hi, as long as we're doing archaeology.
> When I looked into WA_LEFT and friends before, I eventually convinced
> myself that they were for Japanese characters that could run
> horizontally or vertically and that could have lines above or below
> horizontal characters or to the left or right of vertical characters.
> My evidence was looking at the SGR escape code in JIS X 0211.

   Hmmm... an interesting thought... seems to me you may be on to something 
here.

   Any idea what A_VERTICAL or A_HORIZONTAL highlights would mean in this case? 
 And what the difference would be between A_LOW and A_UNDERLINE?
> But that isn't "proof", of course. For proof you'd need some notes from X/Open
> about what the heck they were thinking at the time.

   Yes,  that _would_ be lovely.  I don't think we'll get that,  but maybe such 
notes are out there somewhere.

-- Bill