From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>,
"Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>,
Martin Walch <walch.martin@web.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] kconfig: nconfig: fix multi-byte UTF handling
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 15:18:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140606131813.GD4889@ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1401868351-24014-3-git-send-email-computersforpeace@gmail.com>
On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 12:52:31AM -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
> Currently, Kconfig descriptions that use multi-byte UTF-8 characters
> (such as MTD_NAND_CAFE) will have their menu entries dropped from the
> 'make nconfig' ncurses menu, and all subsequent entries in the same
> window will be omitted. This seems to be due to the ncurses 'menu'
> library, which does not traditionally handle UTF-8 >8-bit characters
> properly.
>
> The ncursesw library ('w' is for "wide") is written to handle these
> UTF-8 characters, and is practically a drop-in replacement at the source
> level. Use it by default, if available.
>
> Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43067
> Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
> Cc: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
> Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: Martin Walch <walch.martin@web.de>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-06 13:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-04 7:52 [PATCH 0/2] kconfig: fix multi-byte UTF handling in nconfig Brian Norris
2014-06-04 7:52 ` [PATCH 1/2] kconfig: lxdialog: fix spelling Brian Norris
2014-06-04 7:52 ` [PATCH 2/2] kconfig: nconfig: fix multi-byte UTF handling Brian Norris
2014-06-06 13:18 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2014-06-05 1:53 ` [PATCH 0/2] kconfig: fix multi-byte UTF handling in nconfig Martin Walch
2014-06-06 13:16 ` Sam Ravnborg
2014-06-06 13:17 ` Sam Ravnborg
2014-07-10 8:52 ` Brian Norris
2014-08-20 16:40 ` Brian Norris
2014-08-22 11:02 ` Michal Marek
2014-08-24 5:17 ` Brian Norris
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