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echo: golded
to: MARCIN LUKASIK
from: WILFRED VAN VELZEN
date: 2017-09-26 21:28:00
subject: Re: Ncurses 6.0 and newer

Hi Marcin,

On 2017-09-26 19:30:18, you wrote to All:

 ML> Do the Golded developers read this list, or should I post on the
 ML> Russian one?

I think they are linked, but if they are reading and still developing golded, I
doubt very much.

 ML> Upgrading ncurses from 6.0+20170527 to 6.0+20170902 (right when it was
 ML> packaged for the Arch Linux testing repo) broke Golded for me (of course
 ML> after recompiling it). Namely, box-drawing characters didn't appear
 ML> properly, and areas that were supposed to be empty weren't cleared, for
 ML> example when I went from a post with a longer subject to one with a
shorter
 ML> subject, a big portion of the longer one remained visible. Downgrading to
 ML> 6.0+20170902 or 6.0 stable fixed this, but it doesn't feel like a clean
 ML> solution, as this issue didn't affect other programs.

Maurice Kinal and Nicholas Boel recently discussed this in the ASIAN_LINK area
(which you can rescan from me). But I think Nicholas used the same solution as
you...


Bye, Wilfred.

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