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@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
* sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written *
* authorization. *
****************************************************************************
- * @Id: curs_addch.3x,v 1.35 2015/05/13 19:18:37 tom Exp @
+ * @Id: curs_addch.3x,v 1.37 2015/09/05 21:13:25 tom Exp @
-->
@@ -67,6 +67,9 @@
+
+
+
The addch, waddch, mvaddch and mvwaddch routines put the
character ch into the given window at its current window
position, which is then advanced. They are analogous to
@@ -115,6 +118,9 @@
fined video attribute constants that can be usefully OR'ed
into characters.
+
+
+
The echochar and wechochar routines are equivalent to a
call to addch followed by a call to refresh, or a call to
waddch followed by a call to wrefresh. The knowledge that
@@ -130,8 +136,11 @@
characters to the screen with routines of the addch fam-
ily. The default character listed below is used if the
acsc capability does not define a terminal-specific
- replacement for it. The names are taken from VT100 nomen-
- clature.
+ replacement for it, or if the terminal and locale configu-
+ ration requires Unicode but the library is unable to use
+ Unicode.
+
+ The names are taken from VT100 nomenclature.
Name Default Description
--------------------------------------------------
@@ -172,41 +181,54 @@
All routines return the integer ERR upon failure and OK on
- success (the SVr4 manuals specify only "an integer value
+ success (the SVr4 manuals specify only "an integer value
other than ERR") upon successful completion, unless other-
wise noted in the preceding routine descriptions.
- Functions with a "mv" prefix first perform a cursor move-
- ment using wmove, and return an error if the position is
+ Functions with a "mv" prefix first perform a cursor move-
+ ment using wmove, and return an error if the position is
outside the window, or if the window pointer is null.
- Note that addch, mvaddch, mvwaddch, and echochar may be
+ Note that addch, mvaddch, mvwaddch, and echochar may be
macros.
- All these functions are described in the XSI Curses stan-
- dard, Issue 4. The defaults specified for forms-drawing
+ All these functions are described in the XSI Curses stan-
+ dard, Issue 4. The defaults specified for forms-drawing
characters apply in the POSIX locale.
- X/Open Curses states that the ACS_ definitions are char
- constants. For the wide-character implementation (see
+ X/Open Curses states that the ACS_ definitions are char
+ constants. For the wide-character implementation (see
curs_add_wch), there are analogous WACS_ definitions which
are cchar_t constants.
- Some ACS symbols (ACS_S3, ACS_S7, ACS_LEQUAL, ACS_GEQUAL,
- ACS_PI, ACS_NEQUAL, ACS_STERLING) were not documented in
- any publicly released System V. However, many publicly
- available terminfos include acsc strings in which their
- key characters (pryz{|}) are embedded, and a second-hand
- list of their character descriptions has come to light.
- The ACS-prefixed names for them were invented for
+ Some ACS symbols (ACS_S3, ACS_S7, ACS_LEQUAL, ACS_GEQUAL,
+ ACS_PI, ACS_NEQUAL, ACS_STERLING) were not documented in
+ any publicly released System V. However, many publicly
+ available terminfos include acsc strings in which their
+ key characters (pryz{|}) are embedded, and a second-hand
+ list of their character descriptions has come to light.
+ The ACS-prefixed names for them were invented for
ncurses(3x).
+ The displayed values for the ACS_ and WACS_ constants
+ depend on
+
+ o the library configuration, i.e., ncurses versus ncurs-
+ esw, where the latter is capable of displaying Unicode
+ while the former is not, and
+
+ o whether the locale uses UTF-8 encoding.
+
+ In certain cases, the terminal is unable to display line-
+ drawing characters except by using UTF-8 (see the discus-
+ sion of NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS in ncurses(3x)).
+
The TABSIZE variable is implemented in some versions of
curses, but is not part of X/Open curses.
@@ -234,6 +256,8 @@
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION