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task #1071: Terminfo description

Submitter:  Marcus Brinkmann <marcus>
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Category:  Console Should Start On:  Sat 15 Jun 2002 10:00:00 PM UTC
Should be Finished on:  Mon 15 Jul 2002 10:00:00 PM UTC Priority:  * 7 - High
Status:  None Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  marco_g Percent Complete:  90%
Open/Closed:  Open Planned Release:  None
Effort:  2.00
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Finish the terminfo description, deciding upon the last unclear points, and submit it to the ncurses maintainers.

Last unclear points are:

  • Will we support user definable tab stops? (Yes)

  Readily implemented by having an unsigned char *tabs
  bitfield that holds the tab positions.

  • Will we support alternative character sets (maybe, punting it back to the clients).


  • Will we support PC character set

(unlikely, implementing it on the server side mapping PC to
unicode.  OTOH, users can simply set their encoding to it.)
  Setting the iconv converter to PC character set (cp437)
  temporarily shouldn't be too hard, although one has to be
  careful about not losing buffered characters.

  • Will we be bug-by-bug compatible with VT100, in particular with regard to xenl? (I hope not)


  • What about ECMA-48, VT100 and linux compatibility?


  • What about supporting smcup and rmcup? (for xterm like behavior to restore the screen) (Yes)


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