Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] curses: wide character support

[Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>]

On Mi, 2016-10-26 at 00:26 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Ping?

Back online now after being sick for a while.
Sorry for the delay.

> Samuel Thibault, on Sat 15 Oct 2016 21:53:03 +0200, wrote:
> > This patch series adds wide character support to the curses frontend of qemu,
> > thus allowing to fix a lot of input and output issues with e.g. accented letters
> > and semi-graphic glyphs. Since qemu can't know the encoding of the VGA font, the
> > user has to specify it (just like he has to specify the keyboard layout with
> > -k). I used option -f to make it simple for now, but I welcome any other idea :)
> 
> I forgot to mention that I updated the patches according to the reviews
> on the list (assume cursesw support, and use -display option).

Good, looks much better now without all the #ifdefs.

/me wonders whenever we should do the same with iconv.  It's part of the
POSIX.1-2001 specs, and we have 2016 now.  Do we *really* need configure
checks and #ifdefs for it?  Also we could use iconv for the
cp437-to-unicode mapping instead of having a hard-coded table for it.

Given how close the freeze deadline is now I'm tempted to cherry-pick
patches 0-3 and prepare a pull request ASAP.

cheers,
  Gerd