On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 10:59:45AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > Right; it's a Debian patch.  Also, it appears to break line drawing
> > characters (completely) in the ncurses interface and doesn't do them
> > correctly UTF-8 natively, either.  (I'm trying to get this fixed, but
> > don't hold your breath.)
> 
> I did make a note of that (in early November), but line-drawing wasn't as
> high-priority as other things.  (The current state of affairs is that it
> uses the terminfo to send vt100 controls, which works with XFree86 xterm).

Er, xterm shouldn't honor ACS controls in UTF-8 mode.  One of the reasons I
like UTF-8 as a terminal encoding is that they don't explode if I accidentally
dump random binary data to it, which I tend to do at least once a day. :)

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Glenn Maynard
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