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to: Nicholas Boel
from: Vitaliy Aksyonov
date: 2024-03-07 07:02:00
subject: Re: Need volonteers to te

Hello Nicholas.

06 Mar 24 17:06, you wrote to me:

 VA>> Pull request is sent. Wait for commit.

 VA>> Unfortunately it will break pseudo-graphics in some other
 VA>> systems. But my change shall be there anyway. Ncurses shall not
 VA>> be initialized before setlocale().

 NB> Thank you, I'll update when it's pushed!

 NB> Why would it break pseudo-graphics in other systems? Or are you just
 NB> referring to other systems that don't actually use translation tables?
 NB> :)

It's not about translation tables, but about displaying the text. Ncurses has special logic to output pseudo-graphics and it most probably won't work correctly in Unicode locale. It was kinda "working" just because ncurses "thought" that it worked in "legacy" mode, not unicode.

Vitaliy

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