Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 19:46:58 +0100 From: Daniel Nebdal <dnebdal@gmail.com> To: Vitaly Magerya <vmagerya@gmail.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [CFT] New dialog for ports Message-ID: <CA%2Bt49PKG%2B=xZ=o13wRBjQ45Rf5QhQ3P50=9cb9ddbpjdYPGPjQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5149A93A.3000909@gmail.com> References: <20130314095529.GH53963@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <CA%2Bt49P%2BU9q%2B06nFbEox876ou4vzLEJO1S3_Ui9w3beCgs%2BO_4Q@mail.gmail.com> <5149A93A.3000909@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Vitaly Magerya <vmagerya@gmail.com> wrote: > Daniel Nebdal wrote: >> I just found a niggle: >> I have LANG=en_US.UTF-8 , NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS=1, TERM=xterm, and I'm >> using putty to connect to a FreeBSD-10 machine running a snapshot from >> february with ports from an hour ago. Putty is set to Translation: >> UTF-8, and "use unicode line drawing code points". >> >> With those settings, dialog gives me nice line drawing characters (for >> some reason). If I unset NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS, all boxes are drawn >> using random letters instead. (jlmqx, to be exact.) > > They're not actually random; 'jlmqx' is the ASCII rendering of line > drawing characters in ACS (alternative charset), which putty doesn't > support in UTF-8 mode (therefore it shows the ASCII, not the ASC versions). > >> The problem: ports config dialogs are _always_ drawn with the same >> random letters, and I haven't found any setting or combination of >> settings that works. >> >> This is probably more of a mis-configuration on my side > > I'm seeing the same thing too. > > I think I've found what causes it: unlike dialog, dialog4ports does not > call setlocale(3) during startup. Try saving the attached patch as > 'ports-mgmt/dialog4ports/files/patch-dialog4ports.c' and reinstalling > dialog4ports; report back if it'll help. That works perfectly - thanks.
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