On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 08:51:32AM +0000, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > Source: ncurses > Version: 5.9+20140913-1 > Control: affects -1 console-setup > Tags: patch > Severity: minor > > As of the current version of the Terminfo database, the ‘linux’ > terminal entry implies the use of the CP437 encoding for the > box-drawing characters and the like (also known as “alternate > character set”, or ACS): ... > This is hardly a safe assumption these days, especially taking > into account the widespread use of UTF-8, /including/ on ttys.
several comments.
a) this should be merged with #515609
b) no progress has been observed in upstream (Linux kernel of course) in
making the SCS patch referred to in #515609 an official part of Linux.
When I investigated this earlier, I found that it wasn't - in fact did
_not_ work for the kernels which Debian provided. We can discuss this if
the situation has changed.
c) the documentation in console_codes hasn't been updated for instance.
The only "recent" (past 6 years) change there was the note about erase
with "3" parameter since Linux 3.0.
d) this report does prescribe a change, but lacks the patch which is indicated
in the flags.
e) the choice of enacs is problematic since the documentation (console_codes
manpage) is pretty clear:
ESC ( B Select default (ISO 8859-1 mapping)
ESC ( 0 Select VT100 graphics mapping
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