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

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

On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 09:52:38 -0400 (EDT)
"Steven W. Orr" <st...@sy...> wrote:

> 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.,
> 

Strange though Anders sees this too, with (I guess) a Swedish locale
on the machine.

Very strange.

Nick
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