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 Message 2285 
 Nicholas Boel to Vitaliy Aksyonov 
 Need volonteers to test another patch 
 07 Mar 24 17:09:40 
 
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PID: Smapinntpd/Linux 2.0-b20240305
CHRS: UTF-8 4
TZUTC: -0600
TID: hpt/lnx 1.9 2024-02-05
On Thu, 7 Mar 2024 13:02:18 -0700, Vitaliy Aksyonov -> Nicholas Boel wrote:

 NB>> Why would it break pseudo-graphics in other systems? Or are you just
 NB>> referring to other systems that don't actually use translation tables?
 NB>> :)

 VA> It's not about translation tables, but about displaying the text.
 VA> Ncurses has special logic to output pseudo-graphics and it most probably
 VA> won't work correctly in Unicode locale. It was kinda "working" just
 VA> because ncurses "thought" that it worked in "legacy" mode, not unicode.

But, I'm the one using a unicode locale, and it is working. It seems to
only affect people using a cp437/cp850-style single bit locale.

Regards,
Nick

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