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ities, such as programming function keys. For all other functionality,
<STRONG>curses</STRONG> routines are more suitable and their use is recommended.
+ None of these functions use (or are aware of) multibyte character
+ strings such as UTF-8:
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> capability names use the POSIX portable character set
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> capability string values have no associated encoding; they are
+ strings of 8-bit characters.
+
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-Initialization">Initialization</a></H3><PRE>
Initially, <STRONG>setupterm</STRONG> should be called. The high-level curses functions
saveterm save current modes as "in curses" state
savetty store current tty flags
setterm establish terminal with given type
+
setupterm establish terminal with given type
tparm instantiate a string expression with parameters
tputs apply padding information to a string