Ncurses keypad is not properly working in FreeBSD

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 Hi,

I have a C program that accepts and displays numeric characters in 0-9 only
and with alphabet keys, function keys are expected not to respond to any
code from the keyboard using keypad(). I simulated a plain Ncurses C
program without a window and another one with a window using the newwin()
function. The program without window works getting no response from
alphabet keys as well as function keys, however the Enter/return key (ch ==
KEY_ENTER) is not working instead I use (ch == '\n') to get it to work. The
backspace key (ch == KEY_BACKSPACE) is working. For the program with the
window, I expect it to behave similar to the plain program but the function
keys such F5 to F12 are showing codes on the screen as well as Insert,
Delete, Page Up and Page Down keys are also showing codes. Only F1, F2, F3
and F4 are behaving expectedly. The same thing happens to the Enter/return
and backspace keys I use (ch == '\n') and  (ch == '\b') to get them working.

I need your help in this case if there's something I missed in the Ncurses
initialization parameters or maybe a sort of environment variable
configuration problem with my FreeBSD OS. My FreeBSD system is using xterm.

pangi@siquijor:~ # echo $TERM
xterm

FreeBSD version: FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT (arm64)

Ncurses version:
#define NCURSES_VERSION_MAJOR 6
#define NCURSES_VERSION_MINOR 2
#define NCURSES_VERSION_PATCH 20210220

1. Plain C program (without window)

#include <ncurses.h>

int main(void)
{
        initscr();
        keypad(stdscr, TRUE);
        noecho();

        int i;

        for (i=1; i<=14; i++)
        {
                int ch = getch();
                if ((ch == '1') || (ch == '2') || (ch == '3') \
                     || (ch == '4') || (ch == '5') || (ch == '6') \
                     || (ch == '7') || (ch == '8') || (ch == '9') \
                     || (ch == '0'))
                {
                        addch(ch);
                        refresh();
                } else {
                        --i;
                }

                //if (ch == KEY_ENTER) (not working)
                if (ch == '\n')
                {
                        printw("Return key is pressed.\n");
                }

                if (ch == KEY_BACKSPACE)
                {
                        printw("Backspace key is pressed.\n");
                }

        }
        endwin();
        return 0;
}

2. Plain C derived program (with window)

#include <ncurses.h>

int main(void)
{
        WINDOW *alpha;

        initscr();
        //keypad(stdscr, TRUE); (the same outcome with keypad(alpha, TRUE)
below)
        keypad(alpha, TRUE);
        noecho();
        start_color();
        init_pair(1,COLOR_WHITE,COLOR_BLUE);

        alpha = newwin(0,0,0,0);
        if( alpha == NULL)
        {
                endwin();
                puts("Problem creating window");
                return(1);
        }

        wbkgd(alpha,COLOR_PAIR(1));
        wrefresh(alpha);

        int i;

        for (i=1; i<=14; i++)
        {
                int ch = wgetch(alpha);
                if ((ch == '1') || (ch == '2') || (ch == '3') \
                     || (ch == '4') || (ch == '5') || (ch == '6') \
                     || (ch == '7') || (ch == '8') || (ch == '9') \
                     || (ch == '0'))
                {
                        waddch(alpha,ch);
                        wrefresh(alpha);
                } else {
                        --i;
                }

                //if (ch == KEY_ENTER) (not working)
                if (ch == '\n')
                {
                        wprintw(alpha,"Return key is pressed.\n");
                }

                //if (ch == KEY_BACKSPACE) (not working)
                if (ch == '\b')
                {
                        wprintw(alpha,"Backspace key is pressed.\n");
                }

        }
        endwin();
        return 0;
}

Thanks and best regards,
Archimedes

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