My mistake on simplifying this. You've obviously dug in quite a bit here ...

As a first course of action I'd still see if it's a terminal/driver limitation or a bug in curses; i.e., get into a mode on the terminal that allows you to type in escape sequences. When I used to do this stuff we wrote a small program for this that set the terminal to raw mode and recognized a 'QUIT' sequence to get back to the shell. That allowed us to try out the documented sequences. As you probably already know, what's documented doesn't always work. At one point we had three configurations for 3 different SCO xterm consoles because they kept introducing new bugs with each driver ... but I digress. Get to this sort of mode, set the background to true white, then try setting foreground colors and see if they work. That should show you if this is a terminal/driver issue or a curses issue.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Color on TrueWhite in Curses - Redux by steves
in thread Color on TrueWhite in Curses - Redux by dvergin

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