</PRE><H2><a name="h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></H2><PRE>
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-add_wch">add_wch</a></H3><PRE>
- The <STRONG>add_wch</STRONG>, <STRONG>wadd_wch</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvadd_wch</STRONG>, and <STRONG>mvwadd_wch</STRONG> functions put the com-
- plex character <EM>wch</EM> into the given window at its current position, which
- is then advanced. These functions perform wrapping and special-charac-
- ter processing as follows:
+ The <STRONG>add_wch</STRONG>, <STRONG>wadd_wch</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvadd_wch</STRONG>, and <STRONG>mvwadd_wch</STRONG> functions put the
+ complex character <EM>wch</EM> into the given window at its current position,
+ which is then advanced. These functions perform wrapping and special-
+ character processing as follows:
<STRONG>o</STRONG> If <EM>wch</EM> refers to a spacing character, then any previous character
at that location is removed. A new character specified by <EM>wch</EM> is
- placed at that location with rendition specified by <EM>wch</EM>. The cur-
- sor then advances to the next spacing character on the screen.
+ placed at that location with rendition specified by <EM>wch</EM>. The
+ cursor then advances to the next spacing character on the screen.
<STRONG>o</STRONG> If <EM>wch</EM> refers to a non-spacing character, all previous characters
at that location are preserved. The non-spacing characters of <EM>wch</EM>
- are added to the spacing complex character, and the rendition spec-
- ified by <EM>wch</EM> is ignored.
+ are added to the spacing complex character, and the rendition
+ specified by <EM>wch</EM> is ignored.
<STRONG>o</STRONG> If the character part of <EM>wch</EM> is a tab, newline, backspace or other
control character, the window is updated and the cursor moves as if
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-echo_wchar">echo_wchar</a></H3><PRE>
The <STRONG>echo_wchar</STRONG> function is functionally equivalent to a call to <STRONG>add_wch</STRONG>
- followed by a call to <STRONG><A HREF="curs_refresh.3x.html">refresh(3x)</A></STRONG>. Similarly, the <STRONG>wecho_wchar</STRONG> is func-
- tionally equivalent to a call to <STRONG>wadd_wch</STRONG> followed by a call to <STRONG>wre-</STRONG>
- <STRONG>fresh</STRONG>. The knowledge that only a single character is being output is
- taken into consideration and, for non-control characters, a consider-
- able performance gain might be seen by using the *<STRONG>echo</STRONG>* functions
- instead of their equivalents.
+ followed by a call to <STRONG><A HREF="curs_refresh.3x.html">refresh(3x)</A></STRONG>. Similarly, the <STRONG>wecho_wchar</STRONG> is
+ functionally equivalent to a call to <STRONG>wadd_wch</STRONG> followed by a call to
+ <STRONG>wrefresh</STRONG>. The knowledge that only a single character is being output
+ is taken into consideration and, for non-control characters, a
+ considerable performance gain might be seen by using the *<STRONG>echo</STRONG>*
+ functions instead of their equivalents.
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-Line-Graphics">Line Graphics</a></H3><PRE>
Like <STRONG><A HREF="curs_addch.3x.html">addch(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG>addch_wch</STRONG> accepts symbols which make it simple to draw
- lines and other frequently used special characters. These symbols cor-
- respond to the same VT100 line-drawing set as <STRONG><A HREF="curs_addch.3x.html">addch(3x)</A></STRONG>.
+ lines and other frequently used special characters. These symbols
+ correspond to the same VT100 line-drawing set as <STRONG><A HREF="curs_addch.3x.html">addch(3x)</A></STRONG>.
<STRONG>ACS</STRONG> <STRONG>Unicode</STRONG> <STRONG>ASCII</STRONG> <STRONG>acsc</STRONG> <STRONG>Glyph</STRONG>
<STRONG>Name</STRONG> <STRONG>Default</STRONG> <STRONG>Default</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>Name</STRONG>
<STRONG>o</STRONG> NetBSD curses defines the symbols as a <STRONG>wchar_t</STRONG> within a <STRONG>cchar_t</STRONG>.
<STRONG>o</STRONG> HPUX curses equates some of the <EM>ACS</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG> symbols to the analogous <EM>WACS</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG>
- symbols as if the <EM>ACS</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG> symbols were wide characters. The misde-
- fined symbols are the arrows and other symbols which are not used
- for line-drawing.
+ symbols as if the <EM>ACS</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG> symbols were wide characters. The
+ misdefined symbols are the arrows and other symbols which are not
+ used for line-drawing.
X/Open Curses does not define symbols for thick- or double-lines. SVr4
curses implementations defined their line-drawing symbols in terms of
- intermediate symbols. This implementation extends those symbols, pro-
- viding new definitions which are not in the SVr4 implementations.
+ intermediate symbols. This implementation extends those symbols,
+ providing new definitions which are not in the SVr4 implementations.
Not all Unicode-capable terminals provide support for VT100-style
- alternate character sets (i.e., the <STRONG>acsc</STRONG> capability), with their corre-
- sponding line-drawing characters. X/Open Curses did not address the
- aspect of integrating Unicode with line-drawing characters. Existing
- implementations of Unix curses (AIX, HPUX, Solaris) use only the <STRONG>acsc</STRONG>
- character-mapping to provide this feature. As a result, those imple-
- mentations can only use single-byte line-drawing characters. Ncurses
- 5.3 (2002) provided a table of Unicode values to solve these problems.
- NetBSD curses incorporated that table in 2010.
-
- In this implementation, the Unicode values are used instead of the ter-
- minal description's <STRONG>acsc</STRONG> mapping as discussed in <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">ncurses(3x)</A></STRONG> for the
+ alternate character sets (i.e., the <STRONG>acsc</STRONG> capability), with their
+ corresponding line-drawing characters. X/Open Curses did not address
+ the aspect of integrating Unicode with line-drawing characters.
+ Existing implementations of Unix curses (AIX, HPUX, Solaris) use only
+ the <STRONG>acsc</STRONG> character-mapping to provide this feature. As a result, those
+ implementations can only use single-byte line-drawing characters.
+ Ncurses 5.3 (2002) provided a table of Unicode values to solve these
+ problems. NetBSD curses incorporated that table in 2010.
+
+ In this implementation, the Unicode values are used instead of the
+ terminal description's <STRONG>acsc</STRONG> mapping as discussed in <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">ncurses(3x)</A></STRONG> for the
environment variable <STRONG>NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS</STRONG>. In contrast, for the same
cases, the line-drawing characters described in <STRONG><A HREF="curs_addch.3x.html">curs_addch(3x)</A></STRONG> will use
only the ASCII default values.
terminal, no one can tell what the image represents. Unicode calls
it a snowman.
- Others have suggested these alternatives: S U+00A7 (section mark),
- <STRONG>O</STRONG> U+0398 (theta), <STRONG>O</STRONG> U+03A6 (phi), d U+03B4 (delta), U+2327 (x in a
- rectangle), U+256C (forms double vertical and horizontal), and
- U+2612 (ballot box with x).
+ Others have suggested these alternatives: <section> U+00A7 (section
+ mark), <Theta> U+0398 (theta), <Phi> U+03A6 (phi), <delta> U+03B4
+ (delta), U+2327 (x in a rectangle), U+256C (forms double vertical
+ and horizontal), and U+2612 (ballot box with x).
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
- <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_addch.3x.html">curs_addch(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_attr.3x.html">curs_attr(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_clear.3x.html">curs_clear(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG>curs_out-</STRONG>
- <STRONG><A HREF="curs_outopts.3x.html">opts(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_refresh.3x.html">curs_refresh(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG>putwc(3)</STRONG>
+ <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_addch.3x.html">curs_addch(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_attr.3x.html">curs_attr(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_clear.3x.html">curs_clear(3x)</A></STRONG>,
+ <STRONG><A HREF="curs_outopts.3x.html">curs_outopts(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_refresh.3x.html">curs_refresh(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG>putwc(3)</STRONG>