Re: [Lynx-dev] uxterm vs GNU screen weirdness

[Thorsten Glaser]

Thomas Dickey dixit:

>            '``aaffggiijjkkllmmnnooppqqrrssttuuvvwwxxyyzz{{||}}~~'
>'++\,\,--..00``aaffgghhiijjkkllmmnnooppqqrrssttuuvvwwxxyyzz{{||}}~~'.
>
>The left-arrows are mapped with
>
>#define ACS_LARROW     NCURSES_ACS(',') /* arrow pointing left */
>
>which means those escaped commas.  If xterm's _not_ in UTF-8 mode, then
>none of the different mappings work, because none of them are VT100-compatible.

So I basically have to ensure xterm is ALWAYS in UTF-8 mode¹, then change
the terminfo/termcap database source, to fix this?

① which it is in MirBSD, since nl_langinfo(CODESET) invariablily returns
  "UTF-8", similar for setlocale with LC_CTYPE

bye,
//mirabilos
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