From: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
To: Reza Arbab <arbab@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>,
"Yann E . MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>,
Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>,
buildroot@buildroot.org,
Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH v5 2/5] package/petitboot: prefer UTF-8 support
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2024 12:27:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878r2tvu8n.fsf@48ers.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240207175135.1532037-3-arbab@linux.ibm.com> (Reza Arbab's message of "Wed, 7 Feb 2024 11:51:32 -0600")
>>>>> "Reza" == Reza Arbab <arbab@linux.ibm.com> writes:
> The petitboot UI looks much nicer in a Unicode locale:
> * Items in the language selection submenu use multibyte Unicode
> characters. In other locales, they say "Unable to display text in this
> locale".
> * The combination of TERM=linux with a UTF-8 locale is required to
> trigger a special-case workaround in ncurses code[1]. Without
> this, line-drawing characters in the menu look like q's.
> Turn on wchar support in ncurses, and add a reminder that a UTF-8 locale
> should be generated for things to look right.
> [1] https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#no_line_drawing
> Signed-off-by: Reza Arbab <arbab@linux.ibm.com>
Committed to 2023.11.x, thanks.
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Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-08 11:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-07 17:51 [Buildroot] [PATCH v5 0/5] package/petitboot: misc fixes/enhancement Reza Arbab
2024-02-07 17:51 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v5 1/5] package/petitboot: minor makefile cleanup Reza Arbab
2024-02-07 19:14 ` Yann E. MORIN
2024-03-08 11:27 ` Peter Korsgaard
2024-02-07 17:51 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v5 2/5] package/petitboot: prefer UTF-8 support Reza Arbab
2024-02-07 19:43 ` Yann E. MORIN
2024-03-08 11:27 ` Peter Korsgaard [this message]
2024-02-07 17:51 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v5 3/5] package/petitboot: fix shutdown Reza Arbab
2024-07-12 22:02 ` Arnout Vandecappelle via buildroot
2024-02-07 17:51 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v5 4/5] package/petitboot: run script when exiting to shell Reza Arbab
2024-07-12 22:02 ` Arnout Vandecappelle via buildroot
2024-02-07 17:51 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v5 5/5] package/petitboot: run UI as non-root user Reza Arbab
2024-07-12 22:03 ` Arnout Vandecappelle via buildroot
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