Re: Interesting things found in ncurses that affect screen

[Juergen Weigert]

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On Jul 17, 05 21:19:38 +0200, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> OK, so once again something weird happened while I was using a ncurses
> application in screen.  It's been working fine for a long time and then
> boom, something weird's going on, I'm not getting pretty line-drawing
> characters any more.  So I swear a bit and begin looking into screen,
> ncurses, and the applications code and come up with this wonderful piece
> of code from ncurses:
> 
> ncurses-5.4/ncurses/tinfo/lib_setup.c:
> 
> /*
>  * Check for known broken cases where a UTF-8 locale breaks the alternate
>  * character set.
>  */
> NCURSES_EXPORT(int)
> _nc_locale_breaks_acs(void)
> {   
>     char *env = getenv("TERM");
>     if (env != 0) {
>         if (strstr(env, "linux"))
>             return 1;           /* always broken */
>         if (strstr(env, "screen") != 0
>             && ((env = getenv("TERMCAP")) != 0
>                 && strstr(env, "screen") != 0)
>             && strstr(env, "hhII00") != 0) {
>             return 1;
>         }
>     }
>     return 0;
> }
> 
> So, what's the deal?  

That is odd.
We should ask upstream ncurses when and why this code appeared.
Upstream is still Thomas Dickey, right?

Thomas, are you following this?

        cheers,
                Jw.

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