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

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

On Thursday, Oct 9th 2008 at 02:33 -0000, quoth Nick Warne:

=>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



I suspect that it's not the xterm or or mrxvt (not familiar with that 
one). When you start an xterm, you *can* specify the font.

e.g.,

xterm -font -adobe-courier-bold-o-normal--14-100-100-100-m-90-iso8859-15

I'm guessing that the font that your terminal emulator is using doesn't 
have those characters in the font that it's running which are being 
mis-displayed.

You can get a list of all of the fonts with xlsfonts. We really don't want 
to be using a proportional font, so one of the fixed fonts is probably 
more appropriate, e.g.,

xterm -font -screen-fixed-bold-r-normal--0-0-100-100-c-0-koi8-r



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