terminfo

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 09:01:34PM +0400, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> On 23.02.2014 17:49, Ed Schouten wrote:
> > This terminfo entry is incorrect. It will make ACS work on a standard
> > setup where the user has the BIOS CP437 font loaded, but will break
> > horribly if a user uses a different character set, like ISO-8859-1.
> > 
> > There is a reason why syscons displays ASCII characters for ACS box
> > drawing, namely that there is no guarantee that the actual font loaded
> > into the graphics card has any ACS characters to begin with.
> 
> Old syscons was able to displays pseudographics, and several cons25-like
> termcap entries exists to correspond ACS for each console font. It is
> your emulation which always displays ASCII now, which is step backward.

my changes on Saturday were for a default install of FreeBSD 9 and 10
(the "Old syscons" pseudographics is, except for the 4 noted, quite alive).

I took a look for documentation per se regarding teken, but found none.
It would be nice if someone pointed where the documentation for the feature is.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <dickey at invisible-island.net>
http://invisible-island.net
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