On Sat, May 02, 2015 at 05:21:21PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sat, 02 May 2015 16:40:16 -0400 (EDT), Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > > The intent of the patch is to remove functionality from the xterm > > description > > to make it more like the putty description. > > ... > > The intent of the patch is to provide a new terminal definition, > xterm-256color-utf8, for users of a modern xterm with the vt100Graphics > resource set to false. This new terminal definition reflects how xterm > actually > behaves under those conditions. None of the existing terminal definitions are > altered. And the patch does not mention putty. Please reconsider.
The request said It is also very useful for modern versions of PuTTY, which emulate a modern 256-color xterm but do not support alternate character sets in utf-8 mode. and I pointed out that it would only lead to more bug reports. -- Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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