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Re: [PATCH] light line draw aliases, clean up tests
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: [PATCH] light line draw aliases, clean up tests |
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Sat, 26 Oct 2019 19:51:34 -0400 |
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On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 07:22:23AM -0400, Nick Black wrote:
> I had added *_L_* variants of the wide box drawing characters
> before realizing that they aliased the "unadorned" box drawing
> characters (aka WACS_VLINE == WACS_L_VLINE). With that said,
> someone coming from a Unicode table might be forgiven for
> expecting _L_ variants:
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> [schwarzgerat](0) $ unicode --brief 2500 2501 2550
> ─ U+2500 BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT HORIZONTAL
> ━ U+2501 BOX DRAWINGS HEAVY HORIZONTAL
> ═ U+2550 BOX DRAWINGS DOUBLE HORIZONTAL
thanks (I'll add a note to clarify this in the manpage)
> [schwarzgerat](0) $
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> So I like these for orthogonality's sake if nothing else. If you
> don't agree, I'd at least take the refactoring in
> test/ncurses.c. Thanks!
sorry - the change to test/ncurses.c did not work :-(
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