ncurses 6.3 - patch 20220212

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

diff --git a/man/legacy_coding.3x b/man/legacy_coding.3x
index b8b0561072a65219574c36c56f016f9917f6f518..0fbd5c96d99411968410350671a26f59cdc25506 100644 (file)
--- a/man/legacy_coding.3x
+++ b/man/legacy_coding.3x
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright (c) 2005,2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.                   *
+.\" Copyright 2020-2021,2022 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 +29,16 @@
 .\"
 .\" Author: Thomas E. Dickey
 .\"
-.\" $Id: legacy_coding.3x,v 1.2 2006/02/25 21:50:01 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: legacy_coding.3x,v 1.11 2022/02/12 20:07:56 tom Exp $
 .TH legacy_coding 3X ""
 .SH NAME
-\fBuse_legacy_coding\fR \- use terminal's default colors
+\fBuse_legacy_coding\fP \- override locale-encoding checks
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 \fB#include <curses.h>\fP
 .sp
-\fBint use_legacy_coding(int level);\fP
+\fBint use_legacy_coding(int \fIlevel\fB);\fR
 .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.
@@ -50,7 +49,7 @@ The \fIlevel\fP parameter controls the result:
 .TP 5
 0
 the library functions normally,
-rendering nonprinting characters as described in \fBunctrl\fP(3X).
+rendering nonprinting characters as described in \fBunctrl\fP.
 .TP
 1
 the library ignores \fBisprintf\fP for codes in the range 160-255.
@@ -71,12 +70,6 @@ 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.
+\fBunctrl\fP(3X).
 .SH AUTHOR
 Thomas Dickey (to support lynx's font-switching feature).
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