ncurses 6.1 - patch 20180317

[ncurses.git] / man / user_caps.5

diff --git a/man/user_caps.5 b/man/user_caps.5
index 21e079fe89f359341cc06230493a28c4dd1ff00c..592b35bcd79c74fa06ebde0cadf6e1b8429cf914 100644 (file)
--- a/man/user_caps.5
+++ b/man/user_caps.5
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright (c) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.                        *
+.\" Copyright (c) 2017,2018 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            *
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
-.\" $Id: user_caps.5,v 1.3 2017/11/18 23:51:59 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: user_caps.5,v 1.7 2018/02/17 19:07:01 tom Exp $
 .TH user_caps 5
 .ie \n(.g .ds `` \(lq
 .el       .ds `` ``
@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@
 .ie n  .IP \(bu 4
 .el    .IP \(bu 2
 ..
-.ds n 5
 .SH NAME
 user_caps \- user-defined terminfo capabilities
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -204,9 +203,15 @@ blue (and green) lose just as in the \fIboolean\fP case.
 explicitly list the number of bits used for red, green and blue components
 as a slash-separated list of decimal integers.
 .RE
+.IP
+Because there are several RGB encodings in use,
+applications which make assumptions about the number of bits per color
+are unlikely to work reliably.
+As a trivial case, for example, one could define \fBRGB#1\fP
+to represent the standard eight ANSI colors, i.e., one bit per color.
 .TP 3
 U8
-\fIboolean\fP,
+\fInumber\fP,
 asserts that ncurses must use Unicode values for line-drawing characters,
 and that it should ignore the alternate character set capabilities
 when the locale uses UTF-8 encoding.