ncurses 6.2 - patch 20201107

[ncurses.git] / man / curs_terminfo.3x

diff --git a/man/curs_terminfo.3x b/man/curs_terminfo.3x
index c6eac6e3053607a94816e52219b5a99005f29271..229da5d63b6c30c5ef9c1034f970f6438a86ea11 100644 (file)
--- a/man/curs_terminfo.3x
+++ b/man/curs_terminfo.3x
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"***************************************************************************

-.\" Copyright (c) 1999-2018,2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              *
+.\" Copyright 2018,2020 Thomas E. Dickey                                     *
+.\" Copyright 1998-2016,2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.                  *

 .\"                                                                          *
 .\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a  *
 .\" copy of this software and associated documentation files (the            *
 .\"                                                                          *
 .\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a  *
 .\" copy of this software and associated documentation files (the            *


@@ -26,7 +27,7 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"

-.\" $Id: curs_terminfo.3x,v 1.63 2020/01/18 23:55:46 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: curs_terminfo.3x,v 1.67 2020/11/07 23:49:07 tom Exp $

 .TH curs_terminfo 3X ""
 .ie \n(.g .ds `` \(lq
 .el       .ds `` ``
 .TH curs_terminfo 3X ""
 .ie \n(.g .ds `` \(lq
 .el       .ds `` ``


@@ -61,8 +62,6 @@
 .hy
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .nf
 .hy
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .nf

-\fB#include <curses.h>\fR
-.br

 \fB#include <term.h>\fR
 .sp
 \fBTERMINAL *cur_term;\fR
 \fB#include <term.h>\fR
 .sp
 \fBTERMINAL *cur_term;\fR


@@ -119,6 +118,14 @@ capabilities, such as programming function keys.
 For all other
 functionality, \fBcurses\fR routines are more suitable and their use is
 recommended.
 For all other
 functionality, \fBcurses\fR routines are more suitable and their use is
 recommended.

+.PP
+None of these functions use (or are aware of) multibyte character strings
+such as UTF-8:
+.bP
+capability names use the POSIX portable character set
+.bP
+capability string values have no associated encoding;
+they are strings of 8-bit characters.

 .SS Initialization
 .PP
 Initially, \fBsetupterm\fR should be called.
 .SS Initialization
 .PP
 Initially, \fBsetupterm\fR should be called.


@@ -384,7 +391,7 @@ These null-terminated arrays contain
 .bP
 the short terminfo names (\*(``codes\*(''),
 .bP
 .bP
 the short terminfo names (\*(``codes\*(''),
 .bP

-the \fBtermcap\fR names (\*(``names\*('', and
+the \fBtermcap\fR names (\*(``names\*(''), and

 .bP
 the long terminfo names (\*(``fnames\*('')
 .PP
 .bP
 the long terminfo names (\*(``fnames\*('')
 .PP