ncurses 6.0 - patch 20160102

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--- Copyright (c) 1998-2014,2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.               --
+-- Copyright (c) 1998-2015,2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.               --
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 -- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a   --
 -- copy of this software and associated documentation files (the             --
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 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
 -- authorization.                                                            --
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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2543 2015/12/13 01:25:38 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2554 2016/01/03 01:17:55 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,6 +45,25 @@ See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
 it is not possible to add this information.
 
+20160102
+       + modify ncurses c/C color test-screens to take advantage of wide
+         screens, reducing the number of lines used for 88- and 256-colors.
+       + minor refinement to check versus ncv to ignore two parameters of
+         SGR 38 and 48 when those come from color-capabilities.
+
+20151226
+       + add check in tic for use of bold, etc., video attributes in the
+         color capabilities, accounting whether the feature is listed in ncv.
+       + add check in tic for conflict between ritm, rmso, rmul versus sgr0.
+
+20151219
+       + add a paragraph to curs_getch.3x discussing key naming (discussion
+         with James Crippen).
+       + amend workaround for Solaris vs line-drawing to take the configure
+         check into account.
+       + add a configure check for wcwidth() versus the ncurses line-drawing
+         characters, to use in special-casing systems such as Solaris.
+
 20151212
        + improve CF_XOPEN_CURSES macro used in test/configure, to define as
          needed NCURSES_WIDECHAR for platforms where _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
@@ -52,7 +71,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information.
          building with ncurses, that the cchar_t type is checked, since that
          normally is since 20111030 ifdef'd depending on this test.
        + improve 20121222 workaround for broken acs, letting Solaris "work"
-         in spite of its m.isconfigured wcwidth which marks all of the line
+         in spite of its misconfigured wcwidth which marks all of the line
          drawing characters as double-width.
 
 20151205