Comment # 23 on bug 1183234 from Dr. Werner Fink

Notabene:  The bug boo#1054448 is about the rep feature of XTerm (repeat
character) that is that this check is only usefull for terminal types which are
using exactly this feature (and the linux console does not!):

 /local/werner> infocmp -1 | grep rep
         rep=%p1%c\E[%p2%{1}%-%db,
 /local/werner> infocmp -T linux -1 | grep rep
 /local/werner> 

with this rep feature the the line graph looks like

tput -S <<!
smacs
rep 108 0
rep 113 20
rep 107 0
rep 10 0
rmacs
!

without the rep feature this becomes

tput smacs; echo lqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqk; tput rmacs

clearly the ncurses uses the information from the terminfo data pointed by the
TERM variable to use or not use the rep feature