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<STRONG><A HREF="curs_add_wch.3x.html">curs_add_wch(3x)</A></STRONG> Library calls <STRONG><A HREF="curs_add_wch.3x.html">curs_add_wch(3x)</A></STRONG>
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></H2><PRE>
- All of these functions are described in the XSI Curses standard, Issue
- 4. The defaults specified for line-drawing characters apply in the
- POSIX locale.
+ These functions are described in the XSI Curses standard, Issue 4. The
+ defaults specified for line-drawing characters apply in the POSIX
+ locale.
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-WACS-Symbols">WACS Symbols</a></H3><PRE>
<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 <STRONG>ACS_</STRONG> symbols to the analogous <STRONG>WACS_</STRONG>
- symbols as if the <STRONG>ACS_</STRONG> symbols were wide characters. The
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> HP-UX curses equates some of the <STRONG>ACS_</STRONG> symbols to the analogous
+ <STRONG>WACS_</STRONG> symbols as if the <STRONG>ACS_</STRONG> symbols were wide characters. The
misdefined symbols are the arrows and other symbols which are not
used for line-drawing.
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
+ Existing implementations of Unix curses (AIX, HP-UX, 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
-ncurses 6.4 2023-10-07 <STRONG><A HREF="curs_add_wch.3x.html">curs_add_wch(3x)</A></STRONG>
+ncurses 6.4 2023-11-25 <STRONG><A HREF="curs_add_wch.3x.html">curs_add_wch(3x)</A></STRONG>
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