----- Original Message ----- | From: "Stephen Powell" <zlinux...@wowway.com> | To: sub...@bugs.debian.org | Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 7:21:11 AM | Subject: Bug#783808: Please add a new terminal type: xterm-256color-utf8 | | Package: ncurses | Version 5.9+20140913-1 | Severity: wishlist | | There is a need for a new terminal definition, which I call | xterm-256color-utf8. It is based on xterm-256color, except that | it does not support the alternate character set when operating | in utf-8 mode. This is needed for xterm if the vt100Graphics | resource is set to false. It is also very useful for modern | versions of PuTTY, which emulate a modern 256-color xterm but | do not support alternate character sets in utf-8 mode. | | The following patch will provide the needed terminal type: | | http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/PuTTY/add_xterm-256color-utf8.patch
There is no possibility that I will include a patch which implies that PuTTY is xterm, but that inevitably leads to more bug reports. The existing "putty" entry already does what is asked. See for example http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#tic-putty | Note that if this patch is implemented, a corresponding change will | be needed | to the database of color terminals in coreutils (src/dircolors.hin). | | (I don't know why dircolors can't interrogate the terminal definition | in ncurses to determine if the terminal supports color, rather than | maintaining its own database of color terminals. But that's another | subject.) dircolors is hardcoded, ignores terminal database (and some of its definitions as I recall, do not correspond to the terminal database). -- Thomas E. Dickey <dic...@invisible-island.net> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
