terminfo

[Peter Jeremy]

On 2014-Feb-23 14:49:25 +0100, Ed Schouten <ed at 80386.nl> wrote:
>- Who cares about double-width characters? I don't know a single
>program that uses this. In the worst case, you can just use fullwidth
>CJK for certain characters.

I wrote an app at $previous-job that used double-height/double-width
characters in xterm.  I might have been able to use unicode but then
everyone who wanted to use in would need to have configured their xterm
for UTF-8 - and I don't believe had done that.

>- Who cares about 88 colour support? Just use 256 colours.

Assuming your app supports that.

>- Who cares about ACS? Unicode already has those characters.

Again, that assumes your app supports unicode.

>People are nowadays only interested in having a 16 or 256 colour,
>UTF-8 enabled terminal.

And running legacy apps that predate unicode.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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