ncurses 5.6 - patch 20080209

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--- Copyright (c) 1998-2006,2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.               --
+-- Copyright (c) 1998-2007,2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.               --
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 -- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a   --
 -- copy of this software and associated documentation files (the             --
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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1187 2007/12/16 00:23:41 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1206 2008/02/09 23:49:39 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,6 +45,58 @@ 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.
 
+20080209
+       + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
+         comparisons.  This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open curses
+         that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping.  None of the Unix-branded
+         implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
+
+20080203
+       + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
+         for both narrow/wide models.  It had been set only for wide model,
+         but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
+       + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
+         using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
+         further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
+         Chernov).
+       + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
+         If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
+         sequence.
+
+20080126
+       + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
+         handling).  Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
+         or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
+
+20080119
+       + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
+       + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
+       + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
+
+20080112
+       + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
+       + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
+         adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
+         softkeys were used.
+
+20080105
+       + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
+       + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
+         "link_test" builds properly.
+       + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
+       + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
+         (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
+       + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
+         soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
+       + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
+         cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
+         question).
+       + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
+
+20071222
+       + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
+         for delwin().
+
 20071215
        + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
          pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).