-user_caps(5)user_caps(5)
+user_caps(5) File Formats Manual user_caps(5)
@@ -194,7 +194,13 @@
explicitly list the number of bits used for red, green and
blue components as a slash-separated list of decimal integers.
- U8 boolean, asserts that ncurses must use Unicode values for line-
+ 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 RGB#1 to represent the standard eight ANSI colors,
+ i.e., one bit per color.
+
+ U8 number, asserts that ncurses must use Unicode values for line-
drawing characters, and that it should ignore the alternate char-
acter set capabilities when the locale uses UTF-8 encoding. For
more information, see the discussion of NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS in
@@ -239,13 +245,13 @@
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2 Shift
3 Alt
+
4 Shift + Alt
5 Control
6 Shift + Control
7 Alt + Control
8 Shift + Alt + Control
9 Meta
-
10 Meta + Shift
11 Meta + Alt
12 Meta + Alt + Shift