On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Thomas E. Dickey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > my impression (haven't seen any comments that this is fixed yet) is that > > the slang UTF-8 package doesn't work for line-drawing characters. There > > were some patches to hardcode the corresponding UTF-8 strings which may > > make it usable. > > Yeah, the tricky thing is getting the same slang library to DTRT when > in both unicode and non-unicode locales.
hmm - I haven't seen any recent comments. What I did recall was something to the effect that slang wasn't maintaining a table that would let the application tell what the intended effect of the line-drawing characters would be. In (n)curses, that's the acs_map[]. I think I have that sort of thing working reasonably well in current ncurses (until someone comes along and tells it why not ;-). It matches the observed behavior of Tru64 curses, anyway... -- T.E.Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
