ncurses 6.2 - patch 20201205

[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            *
@@ -26,7 +27,7 @@
 .\" 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 `` ``
@@ -61,8 +62,6 @@
 .hy
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .nf
-\fB#include <curses.h>\fR
-.br
 \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.
+.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.
@@ -384,7 +391,7 @@ These null-terminated arrays contain
 .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