On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 08:09:42PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > Control: tags -1 + fixed-upstream > > On 2016-05-07 05:08 -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > On Sat, May 07, 2016 at 10:23:32AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> Package: ncurses-base > >> Version: 6.0+20160319-1 > >> Severity: normal > >> > >> The linux terminfo entry lacks the E3 capability, meaning that > >> clear(1) does not clear the scrollback buffer. The capability was added > >> to the linux3.0 terminfo entry, but we are not using this because it has > >> some undesired side effects in non-Unicode locales, see the discussion > >> in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=665959. > >> > >> I'm not quite sure what to do, but given that Linux kernels older than > >> 3.0 are now unsupported, the terminfo entry for linux should certainly > >> advertise this capability. > > > > comparing linux to linux3.0. > > comparing booleans. > > comparing numbers. > > comparing strings. > > rmacs: '\E[10m', '^O'. > > sgr: > > '\E[0;10%?%p1%t;7%;%?%p2%t;4%;%?%p3%t;7%;%?%p4%t;5%;%?%p5%t;2%;%?%p6%t;1%;%?%p9%t;11%;m', > > > > '\E[0;10%?%p1%t;7%;%?%p2%t;4%;%?%p3%t;7%;%?%p4%t;5%;%?%p5%t;2%;%?%p6%t;1%;m%?%p9%t\016%e\017%;'. > > sgr0: '\E[0;10m', '\E[m\017'. > > smacs: '\E[11m', '^N'. > > E3: NULL, '\E[3J'. > > > > E3 is (as far as I know) harmless; the other features were the reason for > > reverting. When I checked a year or two ago, those were still relying on > > an unofficial patch (since the entire concept of SI/SO offends UTF-8 > > purists), and could be absent from various kernels. > > > > I'll see what I can learn, but adding E3 to "linux" might be the proper > > change. > > The 20160514 patchlevel works fine, thanks. Looks like it fixes bug > #515609[1] as well, doesn't it?
You can mark that done, as well. I verified that the behavior when UTF-8 mode is on gives okay results (though I'll keep the "U8" flag for a while). The behavior with UTF-8 mode off misses some characters (diamond, s1, s3, s7 and s9), and I've a to-do to investigate a little further. -- Thomas E. Dickey <dic...@invisible-island.net> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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