On Fri, Jan 30, 2026 at 05:46:57PM +0000, Robin Haberkorn via Bug reports for 
ncurses, the GNU implementation of curses wrote:
> On Thu Jan 22, 2026 at 06:30:19 GMT +01, Jared Finder wrote:
> > Looking at https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/terminfo.src.html, I 
> > think more terminals could list support for Smol and Rmol to toggle 
> > overline mode.  I have tested locally that the following terminals 
> > support overline and are not listed as such:
> > ...
> 
> Are these capabilities exposed by ncurses as well (A_TOP)?
> Is there any terminal where we could actually box texts with
> A_LEFT, A_RIGHT, A_ROW and A_TOP?

not to my knowledge :-)

imho those were generated by a committee.
 
> btw. Some terminals nowadays have squiggles and strike-through
> as well. I always wondered why this didn't make it right through
> to ncurses.

a few do, but look at the allocated bits (adding stuff would be an ABI change)

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Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]>
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