From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from asavdk4.altibox.net ([109.247.116.15]:56908 "EHLO asavdk4.altibox.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751866AbaFFNS1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jun 2014 09:18:27 -0400 Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 15:18:13 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] kconfig: nconfig: fix multi-byte UTF handling Message-ID: <20140606131813.GD4889@ravnborg.org> References: <1401868351-24014-1-git-send-email-computersforpeace@gmail.com> <1401868351-24014-3-git-send-email-computersforpeace@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1401868351-24014-3-git-send-email-computersforpeace@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Brian Norris Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, Artem Bityutskiy , "Yann E. MORIN" , Martin Walch 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 > Cc: "Yann E. MORIN" > Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org > Cc: Martin Walch Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg