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

[Anders L. <and...@gm...>]

On Thursday 09 October 2008 03:24:29 Steven W. Orr 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.

I ran that little test script and the output I get is different. In konsole i 
get "�terstll" on one line. That is, the "angstrom sign" is replaced with 
junk.
In xterm I get two lines. The first being blank and the second saying 
"terstll" 

-- 
Anders Lindén
http://bashburn.dose.se