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

[Nick W. <ni...@uk...>]

On Wed, 8 Oct 2008 21:24:29 -0400 (EDT)
"Steven W. Orr" <st...@sy...> wrote:

> 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.

Now, I don't see this at all in X using mrxvt terminal.  All are lined
up perfect.  But if I go to virtual terminal Ctrl+Alt+F2 and try it,
they are mis-aligned by a space.

Nick
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