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   Nicholas Boel to Vitaliy Aksyonov   
   Need volonteers to test another patch   
   07 Mar 24 17:09:40   
   
   MSGID: 1:154/10 65ea4934   
   REPLY: 1:104/117 65e9c94e   
   PID: Smapinntpd/Linux 2.0-b20240305   
   CHRS: UTF-8 4   
   TZUTC: -0600   
   TID: hpt/lnx 1.9 2024-02-05   
   On Thu, 7 Mar 2024 13:02:18 -0700, Vitaliy Aksyonov -> Nicholas Boel wrote:   
      
    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>> :)   
      
    VA> It's not about translation tables, but about displaying the text.   
    VA> Ncurses has special logic to output pseudo-graphics and it most probably   
    VA> won't work correctly in Unicode locale. It was kinda "working" just   
    VA> because ncurses "thought" that it worked in "legacy" mode, not unicode.   
      
   But, I'm the one using a unicode locale, and it is working. It seems to   
   only affect people using a cp437/cp850-style single bit locale.   
      
   Regards,   
   Nick   
      
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