Re: lib/44110: curses does not support all four playing card suit characters

[Brett Lymn <blymn%baea.com.au@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR lib/44110; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Brett Lymn <blymn%baea.com.au@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: lib-bug-people%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost, 
netbsd-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: lib/44110: curses does not support all four playing card suit 
characters
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:20:36 +1030

 On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 06:15:00AM +0000, dholland%eecs.harvard.edu@localhost 
wrote:
 > 
 > curses.h defines ACS_DIAMOND, but not ACS_HEART, ACS_CLUB, or ACS_SPADE.
 > (presumably because someone sometime wanted ACS_DIAMOND as a bullet
 > point character or the like)
 > 
 
 I cannot find a reference to any of those ACS symbols apart from
 ACS_DIAMOND.  Checking solaris (original SYSV curses) and ncurses
 turns up nothing as does a search on google.
 
 > This makes the user interface of canfield(6) and other card games suck.
 > 
 
 no doubt about that...
 
 > 
 > Add them and add the necessary bits to terminfo? Many terminals and
 > terminal fonts do have glyphs for all four suits.
 
 Well, taking on board that it would be totally non-standard...The
 battle here is you need to identify character that will produce the
 right shape when the alternate character mode (smacs) is on.  Once
 that is found it is a matter of either extending the acsc or if the
 character is already in the string, using it.
 
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 Brett Lymn
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