Re: ANN: terminfo-20160924.src.gz

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 04:42:11PM +0200, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sun, 9 Oct 2016, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 02:19:27PM +0200, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Hi
> > > 
> > > The linux2.6 terminfo entry still contains the string "enacs=\E(B\E)0", 
> > > which makes it unusable with iso-8859-2 locale and most other one-byte 
> > > character sets (except iso-8859-1 and utf-8).
> > 
> > From our previous discussion, it wasn't clear to me why you cannot use
> > 
> >     # CONFIGURATION FILE FOR SETUPCON
> > 
> >     # Consult the console-setup(5) manual page.
> > 
> >     ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-6]"
> > 
> >     #CHARMAP="UTF-8"
> >     CHARMAP="ISO-8859-2"
> > 
> >     CODESET="Lat2"
> >     FONTFACE="Fixed"
> >     FONTSIZE="8x16"
> > 
> >     VIDEOMODE=
> > 
> >     # The following is an example how to use a braille font
> >     # FONT='lat9w-08.psf.gz brl-8x8.psf'
> 
> I'm using this configuration and this configuration doesn't work with 
> current terminfo.
> 
> You can try it - use the above configuration, run setupcon and then run
> LANG=cs_CZ.iso-8859-2 mc
> - at the bottom line, the label for key 6 should be "Presun" (with caron 
> over "r"), but with current terminfo, the letter r-with-caron is corrupted 
> and a different character is printed.

not to argue (as I said, I am investigating), I don't see the problem
when I run this script (see attached screenshot):

#!/bin/sh
reset
utf8 on
TERM=linux3.0 \
LANGUAGE=cs_CZ \
LANG=cs_CZ.iso88592 mc

where "utf8" is this script

#!/bin/sh
# send character-string to enable UTF-8 mode
if test ".$1" = ".off" ; then
        printf '\033%%@'
else
        printf '\033%%G'
fi

Having seen disagreements over this (both ways), I'll continue investigating
until I can make a table illustrating the tradeoffs.

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Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
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