On 29/03/2024 21:59, Bruno Haible wrote:
Pádraig Brady wrote:
You could determine that programatically with something like:
if os.system(r'{ tput bold || tput md; } >/dev/null 2>&1') == 0:
# enable bold output
As a matter of interest, where did you get the figure that
94% of users have a $TERM set to xterm.* ?
+def get_terminfo_string(capability: str) -> str:
+ '''Returns the value of a string-type terminfo capability for the current
value of $TERM.
+ Returns the empty string if not defined.'''
+ value = ''
+ try:
+ value = sp.run(['tput', capability], stdout=sp.PIPE,
stderr=sp.DEVNULL).stdout.decode('utf-8')
+ except Exception:
+ pass
+ return value
Might latin-1 be more appropriate here, to accept all byte sequences?
I used the following for example to see that xterm-8bit outputs an invalid
utf-8 sequence:
find /usr/share/terminfo -type f -printf '%f\n' | while read t; do
echo -n $t; TERM=$t tput bold | od -An -tx1
done | grep -v 1b
I know the code path isn't used for xterm.* and I don't want to cause any more
complexity,
but was wondering all the same.
cheers,
Pádraig
