Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 19:59:39 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com> To: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: terminfo Message-ID: <20140226085939.GC2705@server.rulingia.com> In-Reply-To: <CAJOYFBB_K0ziNaTg=ThnCBN1EPU-b_H2kUxsc-MPYNEJHb3Y7w@mail.gmail.com> References: <5304A0CC.5000505@FreeBSD.org> <CAJOYFBCMS4k7pyRk2YHZm81F6iP=SApZhbCm0MO4P-pvXbTCxQ@mail.gmail.com> <20140223115939.GB4084@aerie.jexium-island.net> <CAJOYFBB_K0ziNaTg=ThnCBN1EPU-b_H2kUxsc-MPYNEJHb3Y7w@mail.gmail.com>
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--raC6veAxrt5nqIoY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2014-Feb-23 14:49:25 +0100, Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> wrote: >- Who cares about double-width characters? I don't know a single >program that uses this. In the worst case, you can just use fullwidth >CJK for certain characters. I wrote an app at $previous-job that used double-height/double-width characters in xterm. I might have been able to use unicode but then everyone who wanted to use in would need to have configured their xterm for UTF-8 - and I don't believe had done that. >- Who cares about 88 colour support? Just use 256 colours. Assuming your app supports that. >- Who cares about ACS? Unicode already has those characters. Again, that assumes your app supports unicode. >People are nowadays only interested in having a 16 or 256 colour, >UTF-8 enabled terminal. And running legacy apps that predate unicode. --=20 Peter Jeremy --raC6veAxrt5nqIoY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (FreeBSD) iKYEARECAGYFAlMNrPtfFIAAAAAALgAoaXNzdWVyLWZwckBub3RhdGlvbnMub3Bl bnBncC5maWZ0aGhvcnNlbWFuLm5ldDBCRjc3QTcyNTg5NEVCRTY0RjREN0VFRUZF OEE0N0JGRjAwRkI4ODcACgkQ/opHv/APuIeMcQCfXDVwRgn8qUwJ1HFa5W31AljI ejkAoK/flBPdpgyjiy0pL976dmWgXNYj =GOqp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --raC6veAxrt5nqIoY--
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