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author | Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@src.gnome.org> | 2002-03-10 07:26:22 +0000 |
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committer | Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@src.gnome.org> | 2002-03-10 07:26:22 +0000 |
commit | 2c5ff4b02a7ae83f21e8654d1f0ad4463a18cb55 (patch) | |
tree | bdd36643caa1f9667056399b88acd3882bcd2636 /README | |
parent | df735564cf119c3d27d4d3bcb5d92ce57d9853d9 (diff) | |
download | vte-2c5ff4b02a7ae83f21e8654d1f0ad4463a18cb55.tar.gz |
Fix wide-character handling (now handles mid-stream encoding changes correctly).
Updates to the meager docs.
Diffstat (limited to 'README')
-rw-r--r-- | README | 16 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 9 deletions
@@ -18,10 +18,12 @@ * What's missing? - Entries in the termcap file also don't contain the sequences which a terminal is supposed to send to the application when a specific sequence is received - (for example, the query-cursor-position control sequence). I haven't figured - out how to do those yet. + (for example, the query-cursor-position control sequence). This mostly looks + like XTerm's DCS command, but ther may be others. - Most commands specific to Xterm or dtterm are recognized, but very few of - their behaviors are implemented. + their behaviors are implemented. Luckily, many of them are duplicates of + standard termcap behaviors, and because we parse termcap first, they work + correctly for "xterm". - Portions of the alternate charset support (usually used for line-drawing) aren't done yet, but most of it is. - Certain termcap-specific commands aren't implemented yet. There are enough @@ -32,11 +34,7 @@ things is currently scarce, so some of it's guesswork. - An actual property interface needs to be retrofitted over the various options which are currently hard-coded at startup-time. -- The widget uses wide characters internally, converting from the narrow streams - it interfaces with for internal storage using iconv, but it doesn't handle - changes to the terminal encoding in the middle of a block of characters until - after it's processed the entire block, meaning that sometimes encoding isn't - handled properly. -- Selection and copy/paste support isn't started yet. +- Selection and copying by word or line isn't available (by char works, but the + handling of end-of-line locations is not quite right). - Input method support isn't started yet. - Mouse tracking isn't started yet. |