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

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

On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 07:33:15 +0100
Nick Warne <ni...@uk...> wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 07:05:09 +0100
> Nick Warne <ni...@uk...> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> OK, in xterm I see what you mean.
> 
> In the Swedish lang configure.lang:
> 
> bb_conf_menu_default='_____terst____ll'
> bb_conf_menu_revert='_____ngra ____ndringar'
> 
> (if you can't see the above try:
> http://svn.inf.sgsp.edu.pl/filedetails.php?rep=0&path=/bashburn/trunk/lang/Swedish/configure.lang&rev=0&sc=0
> )
> 
> appear as:
> 
> ^[[1;31m|-^[[37;40m 20) __^__terst____ll^[[1;31m
> ^[[1;31m|-^[[37;40m 21) __^__ngra ____ndringar^[[1;31m
> 
> i.e. having ctrl ^ chars in there instead of that funny inverse
> question mark.
> 
> Nick

Also, if I use 'strings' on configure.lang I see it also:

bb_conf_menu_default='Ã
terställ'
bb_conf_menu_revert='Ã
ngra ändringar'

You get a line break at that funny ^ char.

Nick
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