Messages in this thread | | | From | Ulf Magnusson <> | Date | Fri, 4 May 2018 00:48:14 +0200 | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] Kconfiglib menuconfig implementation |
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On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 10:28 PM, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> wrote: > Hi, > > (with new kconfiglib.py and menuconfig.py) > > Thanks for the fixes. > > If I use "LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8" then I get the down arrows in the bottom colored > bar. Without that, I get an upside-down T (that is 193, 0xc1, line drawing > character in the IBM extended character set). > > Hm. With LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8, the upper colored bar prints up arrows. > Without that, it prints ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^. > That's nice that it can do either.
The arrows use ACS_U/DARROW from the alternate character set. You get nice Unicode arrows for those with ncurses/PDCurses, plus "fallbacks" (strictly speaking the Unicode arrows are fallbacks too).
Unicode text entry is still broken with LC_CTYPE=C, because ncurses respects it. Having the menuconfig just force C.UTF-8 if it's available might fix a bunch of problems in practice, even if it feels a bit iffy to force settings.
Python 3.7 will improve things at least. It converts LC_CTYPE=C into LC_CTYPE=<some available UTF-8 locale>.
Cleanest would be if all environments sanely defaulted to UTF-8, but that's not how it is in practice, unfortunately. :)
> > Being a vim user, I do like the optional navigation keys. > > -- > ~Randy
Cheers, Ulf
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