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Re: linux 2.6.x console's terminfo entry
From: |
Ingo Brückl |
Subject: |
Re: linux 2.6.x console's terminfo entry |
Date: |
Tue, 07 Jul 2020 19:25:00 +0200 |
Thomas Dickey wrote on Mon, 6 Jul 2020 20:14:34 -0400:
> but the underscores came from this discussion:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2006-02/msg00021.html
This seems to me to have been an interim result during development, because
in https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2006-03/msg00008.html he
finally names the correct acsc string.
>> acsc further reads }c, which prevents printing the UK pound sign and
>> should be }} instead.
> probably - but to be certain, looking at the kernel source might help
In drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c, the "VT100 graphics mapped to Unicode" table
maps } to 0x00a3 which is the Unicode Character 'POUND SIGN' (U+00A3).
Ingo