Control: tags -1 = wontfix
On 2015-05-06 20:07 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Sat, 02 May 2015 18:56:24 -0400 (EDT), Thomas Dickey wrote:
>>
>> The request said
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> and I pointed out that it would only lead to more bug reports.
>
> I disagree. I don't think it will lead to more bug reports.
> But never mind that. Forget about PuTTY. Forget I ever mentioned
> it. I wish now that I hadn't. I only mentioned it because I
> thought it would be an additional selling point, but I was clearly
> wrong about that. All mentioning it has done is to provide a
> distraction from the main topic. So forget about it. I'll never
> mention it again, and I'm sorry I mentioned it the first time.
>
> Now, let's look at this purely from an xterm point of view.
>
> There is already an xterm-utf8 terminal definition. All I'm asking
> for is an xterm-256color-utf8 terminal definition to go with
> the existing xterm-256color terminal definition, just as there is
> an existing xterm-utf8 terminal definition to go with the xterm
> terminal definition. All I'm asking for is consistency for xterm
> users.
Looks like you have not convinced Thomas to add your terminal
description, and I am not going to include it in ncurses-term unless
it appears upstream as well.
Either you get Thomas to change his mind, or you need to distribute the
xterm-256color-utf8 terminfo description via other means.
Cheers,
Sven
