ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210821

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

diff --git a/man/legacy_coding.3x b/man/legacy_coding.3x
index fabb607a572ea511a688d1dc7e46b04761b15f6e..42c3dd6469e48c2c402525487c400e48da7a663f 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 2020,2021 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 1.4 2010/12/04 18:49:20 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: legacy_coding.3x,v 1.9 2021/08/15 19:32:05 tom Exp $
 .TH legacy_coding 3X ""
 .SH NAME
-\fBuse_legacy_coding\fR \- use terminal's default colors
+\fBuse_legacy_coding\fR \- override locale-encoding checks
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 \fB#include <curses.h>\fP
 .sp
-\fBint use_legacy_coding(int level);\fP
+\fBint use_legacy_coding(int \fP\fIlevel\fP\fB);\fP
 .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.
@@ -71,6 +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\fR(3X).
 .SH AUTHOR
 Thomas Dickey (to support lynx's font-switching feature).