HEADS UP: ncurses is updated

[Thomas Dickey]

In muc.lists.freebsd.stable Thomas Dickey <dickey at radix.net> wrote:
> yes - but see

> 	http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/faq.html
> 	A.5.1 What terminal type does PuTTY use?

> which is not really helpful.  Compare PuTTY and xterm using

As an aside, the second paragraph in that FAQ entry is incorrect,
since xterm implements the same title-string control sequences.

PuTTY's developers have chosen to selectively use (not limited to this
instance) old X11R6 xterm for comparison, while implementing features
from modern xterm (since 1996), e.g., the 256-color support.

xterm doesn't implement the Linux color palette sequences (though it
does recognize a different set with comparable functionality).  From
xterm's manpage:

       brokenLinuxOSC (class BrokenLinuxOSC)
               If true, xterm applies a workaround to ignore malformed control
               sequences that a Linux script might send.  Compare the  palette
               control  sequences  documented  in  console_codes with ECMA-48.
               The default is ``true.''

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