Re: [PATCH] Kconfig: lxdialog: Enable UTF8

[Jan Engelhardt]

Hi,


utf-8 enabled vc consoles (/dev/tty1) usually show line drawing 
graphics with the ascii set, e.g. + - and | for lxdialog (and many other apps 
btw)

The following patch brings back the real graphics for lxdialog, which are 
normally present in these cases:
- non-utf8 vc
- xterm (u8 / non-u8)

I've just exchanged -lncurses with -lncursesw and I got the linegraphs back. 
This simple trick can only be used with lxdialog, for some reason(?)

Patch notes: There seems to be no change or impact for non-UTF8 users; but 
someone using non-utf8 for vc please verify this.
Valid for many kernels in the 2.6.x series, including the "recent" 
2.6.13-rc1-git3-someBigNumber I use.


Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

diff -Pdpru S0706/scripts/lxdialog/Makefile AS17/scripts/lxdialog/Makefile
--- S0706/scripts/lxdialog/Makefile	2005-07-07 20:53:51.000000000 +0200
+++ AS17/scripts/lxdialog/Makefile	2005-07-09 11:31:08.000000000 +0200
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ HOST_EXTRACFLAGS := -DLOCALE 
 ifeq ($(shell uname),SunOS)
 HOST_LOADLIBES   := -lcurses
 else
-HOST_LOADLIBES   := -lncurses
+HOST_LOADLIBES   := -lncursesw
 endif
 
 ifeq (/usr/include/ncurses/ncurses.h, $(wildcard /usr/include/ncurses/ncurses.h))
-
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