Re: [Bashburn-info] Values misaligned in config menus

[Steven W. O. <st...@sy...>]

On Wednesday, Oct 8th 2008 at 18:51 -0000, quoth Anders Lind?n:

=>I've noticed that when I use the Swedish translation, the current settings 
=>in the config and advanced menu are not aligned evenly. In English and 
=>German it all looks right but not in Swedish. Anyone have a clue on why 
=>this is?

I'm not sure why, but I see it too. I only see that the last four menu 
items are messaed up. The rest is ok.

If I try this:

#! /bin/bash
bb_conf_menu_default=$'\205terstll'
printf "%s\n" "$bb_conf_menu_default"

It prints out something on two lines.

So for starters, we should not be coding the line up with embedded control 
characters. We should be using the notation I describe above.

As for why it displays this way... I suspect it has something to do wit 
hwhether the terminal emulator program we're using (each one of different) 
knows how to handle the characters we try to display. IOW, is the 
character that we want to see part of the character set that the program 
knows how to display? This is just a stab because the likelyhood is that 
Anders is correctly capable of displaying whatver that $'\205' really is.




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