ncurses 6.4 - patch 20231028

[ncurses.git] / man / legacy_coding.3x

diff --git a/man/legacy_coding.3x b/man/legacy_coding.3x
index fabb607a572ea511a688d1dc7e46b04761b15f6e..73f14d4f538b5757776b865759048d5b1781f759 100644 (file)
--- a/man/legacy_coding.3x
+++ b/man/legacy_coding.3x
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright (c) 2005-2006,2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              *
+.\" Copyright 2020-2022,2023 Thomas E. Dickey                                *
+.\" Copyright 2005-2016,2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.                  *
 .\"                                                                          *
 .\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a  *
 .\" copy of this software and associated documentation files (the            *
@@ -28,18 +29,19 @@
 .\"
 .\" Author: Thomas E. Dickey
 .\"
-.\" $Id: legacy_coding.3x,v 1.4 2010/12/04 18:49:20 tom Exp $
-.TH legacy_coding 3X ""
+.\" $Id: legacy_coding.3x,v 1.21 2023/10/07 21:19:07 tom Exp $
+.TH legacy_coding 3X 2023-10-07 "ncurses 6.4" "Library calls"
 .SH NAME
-\fBuse_legacy_coding\fR \- use terminal's default colors
+\fB\%use_legacy_coding\fP \-
+override \fIcurses\fR locale encoding checks
 .SH SYNOPSIS
-\fB#include <curses.h>\fP
-.sp
-\fBint use_legacy_coding(int level);\fP
+.nf
+\fB#include <curses.h>
+.PP
+\fBint use_legacy_coding(int \fIlevel\fP);
+.fi
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-The
-.I use_legacy_coding()
-function is an extension to the curses library.
+The \fBuse_legacy_coding\fP function is an extension to the curses library.
 It allows the caller to change the result of \fBunctrl\fP,
 and suppress related checks within the library that would normally
 cause nonprinting characters to be rendered in visible form.
@@ -70,7 +72,7 @@ This routine is specific to ncurses.
 It was not supported on Version 7, BSD or System V implementations.
 It is recommended that any code depending on ncurses extensions
 be conditioned using NCURSES_VERSION.
-.SH SEE ALSO
-\fBunctrl\fR.
 .SH AUTHOR
 Thomas Dickey (to support lynx's font-switching feature).
+.SH SEE ALSO
+\fB\%unctrl\fP(3X)