HEADS UP: ncurses is updated

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 01:49:32AM +0800, Rong-en Fan wrote:
...
> You mean it display sometihng like "tqxu" instead of line drawing 
> characters?
> Last time I checked, I thought it is terminal related. When I use screen, it
> uses line drawing character. For PuTTY, see:

PuTTY implemented UTF-8 much later than screen and Linux console.

Those (the last two) tend to have $TERM set properly (at least half the time).
I could let ncurses guess what to do based on $TERM and locale.

For PuTTY, most users have it incorrectly set to "xterm"(*).
There are no clues - so I added the environment variable to help.

(*) It's incorrect because in several areas it does not match xterm.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
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