| I suppose the question is whether or not the -current termcap changed within
| the last couple weeks, since I wasn't experiencing this behaviour with a
| build from the beginning of the month.

  Yes, there was a change about a week ago.

> revision 1.43
> date: 1999/03/13 09:03:29;  author: itohy;  state: Exp;  lines: +85 -86
> Use G0 (not G1) for the alternative character set (DEC line graphics).
> Delete "\E)0" sequences and make ":as=\E(0:ae=\E(B:"
> (some terminals use "1" for "0").
> This change makes it easy to use 8-bit encodings, such as ISO8859, EUC, etc.
> PR #7126.

	mjl