Re: [PATCH 0/2] kconfig: fix multi-byte UTF handling in nconfig

Sam Ravnborg
2014-06-06T13:18:03Z

On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 12:52:29AM -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The first patch is trivial.
>
> The second is inspired by a long-standing bugzilla entry:
>
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43067
>
> The MTD_NAND_CAFE Kconfig symbol (drivers/mtd/nand/Kconfig) has description
> text which uses a multi-byte UTF-8 character: the 'É' in 'CAFÉ'. This
> character (and other similar >8bit UTF-8 characters) is not handled
> correctly by many of the kernel configuration tools (notably 'make nconfig'
> and 'make xconfig'). nconfig was especially broken, as it would completely
> drop any menu entry which had non-ASCII characters, as well as ALL
> subsequent entries in the same window (!!).
Thanks for fixing this.

Sam