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Re: lynx-dev patch: alternate characters on Digital UNIX 4.0
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T.E.Dickey |
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Re: lynx-dev patch: alternate characters on Digital UNIX 4.0 |
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Mon, 27 Apr 1998 05:26:00 -0400 (EDT) |
> On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, T.E.Dickey wrote:
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> > But: does the original problem exist there? (Solaris curses was
> > sign-extending the values in acs_map when they happened to be >127).
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> I have not verified this, but I suppose there is no reason to believe
> that this particular bug would exist in Digital UNIX. The reason I sent
> the patch was that the configure script was using acs_map to test for
> the presence of alternate character set support. The test failed on
> Digital UNIX, which led to lynx being built without ACS support.
yes - that occurred to me after last night. But the test for ACS support
really should not rely on testing for the array, but for the presence of
the box characters. We need the array to be able to poke around and fix
the sign-extension.
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Thomas E. Dickey
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