ncurses 6.0 - patch 20151219

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 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2543 2015/12/13 01:25:38 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2547 2015/12/20 02:03:35 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,6 +45,14 @@ See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
 it is not possible to add this information.
 
+20151219
+       + add a paragraph to curs_getch.3x discussing key naming (discussion
+         with James Crippen).
+       + amend workaround for Solaris vs line-drawing to take the configure
+         check into account.
+       + add a configure check for wcwidth() versus the ncurses line-drawing
+         characters, to use in special-casing systems such as Solaris.
+
 20151212
        + improve CF_XOPEN_CURSES macro used in test/configure, to define as
          needed NCURSES_WIDECHAR for platforms where _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
@@ -52,7 +60,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information.
          building with ncurses, that the cchar_t type is checked, since that
          normally is since 20111030 ifdef'd depending on this test.
        + improve 20121222 workaround for broken acs, letting Solaris "work"
-         in spite of its m.isconfigured wcwidth which marks all of the line
+         in spite of its misconfigured wcwidth which marks all of the line
          drawing characters as double-width.
 
 20151205