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Re: accented characters


From: YuGiOhJCJ Mailing-List
Subject: Re: accented characters
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 11:21:55 +0200

Ok, in fact there are more than one problem :

1)Eterm and aterm don't support UTF-8. So, the best thing to do for me is to 
use an other terminal (I have the choice). This first problem is solved :-)

2)When a terminal support UTF-8 (xterm or urxvt), I got a strange rectangle at 
the right of the item when I got an accented character. So, for this second 
problem, you say I need to configure the locale correctly, isn't it?

On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 04:16:31 -0400 (EDT)
Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 16 Jun 2011, YuGiOhJCJ Mailing-List wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > I see a problem with accented characters and dialog.
> >
> > The menu box display a filled rectangle at the right of each item 
> > containing an accented character (see the screen shots attached to this 
> > mail). There is exactly the same number of filled rectangles than the 
> > number of accented characters in the item.
> >
> > I use :
> > -dialog-1.1-20080819
> > -glibc-2.14
> > -ncurses-5.7
> > -bash-4.0
> >
> > You can reproduce the bug using the script create_root_dialog.sh (see the 
> > script attached to this mail) :
> > $ ./create_root_dialog.sh
> > $ sudo chroot create_root_dialog
> > $ ./menu.sh
> >
> > I add also some screen shots with the terminals (see attachments) :
> > -eterm
> > -aterm
> > -xterm
> > -urxvt
> >
> > Can you tell me how to resolve this problem?
> 
> The odd screenshots look like the application is using UTF-8 encoding
> while the terminal is not setup for that.  Eterm and aterm don't support
> UTF-8, I recall.  xterm and urxvt do support it.
> 
> Your example script uses UTF-8 encoding.  If the locale were set properly
> for each terminal, it would be possible for instance to use recode to
> generate a ISO-8859-1 encoded version of the script for Eterm and aterm.
> 
> It would be possible to modify dialog so that it did the recoding - but
> that's not currently implemented.
> 
> -- 
> Thomas E. Dickey
> http://invisible-island.net
> ftp://invisible-island.net
> 




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