ncurses 6.2 - patch 20201003

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

diff --git a/man/legacy_coding.3x b/man/legacy_coding.3x
index b8b0561072a65219574c36c56f016f9917f6f518..ff951d67b6ad6675417edabe6961d1b65e1f2641 100644 (file)
--- a/man/legacy_coding.3x
+++ b/man/legacy_coding.3x
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright (c) 2005,2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.                   *
+.\" Copyright 2020 Thomas E. Dickey                                          *
+.\" Copyright 2005-2016,2017 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            *
@@ -28,18 +29,16 @@
 .\"
 .\" Author: Thomas E. Dickey
 .\"
-.\" $Id: legacy_coding.3x,v 1.2 2006/02/25 21:50:01 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: legacy_coding.3x,v 1.7 2020/02/02 23:34:34 tom Exp $
 .TH legacy_coding 3X ""
 .SH NAME
-\fBuse_legacy_coding\fR \- use terminal's default colors
+\fBuse_legacy_coding\fR \- override locale-encoding checks
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 \fB#include <curses.h>\fP
 .sp
 \fBint use_legacy_coding(int level);\fP
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-The
-.I use_legacy_coding()
-function is an extension to the curses library.
+The \fBuse_legacy_coding\fP function is an extension to the curses library.
 It allows the caller to change the result of \fBunctrl\fP,
 and suppress related checks within the library that would normally
 cause nonprinting characters to be rendered in visible form.
@@ -50,7 +49,7 @@ The \fIlevel\fP parameter controls the result:
 .TP 5
 0
 the library functions normally,
-rendering nonprinting characters as described in \fBunctrl\fP(3X).
+rendering nonprinting characters as described in \fBunctrl\fP.
 .TP
 1
 the library ignores \fBisprintf\fP for codes in the range 160-255.
@@ -74,9 +73,3 @@ be conditioned using NCURSES_VERSION.
 \fBunctrl\fR.
 .SH AUTHOR
 Thomas Dickey (to support lynx's font-switching feature).
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