Re: [PATCH] Kconfig: lxdialog: Enable UTF8

From: Ken Moffat
Date: Wed Jul 13 2005 - 19:28:33 EST


On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

> 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)
>

OK, I'll bite - non utf8 here, and no libncursesw : a quick google
suggests I can get it if I recompile ncurses with --enable-widec, but
why would I want to do that ?

Ken
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