Re: Bugs when porting ncurses to a new platform

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Subject: Re: Bugs when porting ncurses to a new platform
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At 2026-06-30T20:31:49-0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2026 at 05:37:55PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > I believe you don't see the problem in 256-color mode in _general_
> > because there is no historical conflicting tradition for encoding of
> > the RGB color channel values when more than one bit per channel is
> > available.  I think you continue to see the problem with the first
> > 16 colors in 256-color mode because those are allocated separately
> > from the remainder of the 256-element color space to maintain
> > consistent color rendering with the 3-bit RGB (and 4-bit RGBI) SGR
> > escape sequences.  That way, most _applications_ don't need to know
> > how many colors the terminal emulator supports, but can inquire of
> > this information if they desire, even applying their own color
> > indexing system that they map to the ncurses/terminfo 8-bit color
> > cube if and as they desire.
>=20
> no - it's ncurses being helpful rather than the DS balking

Ah, I apologize to the list for getting it wrong then.

I haven't yet attempted to contribute major revisions to the
curs_attr.3x and curs_color.3x pages because I'm not ready yet--as we
see above.

Regards,
Branden

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