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

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

On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:51:43 +0200
Anders Lindén <and...@gm...> wrote:

> 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" 
> 

This is strange.  In lang/Swedish/configure.lang I see:

bb_conf_menu_revert='Ã^Ångra ändringar'

but if I remove the funny chars to:

Ångra Ãndringar

which, according to online tramslator means to 'undo changes', then the menu works OK.

BTW, to change the line I have to cut 'n' paste the 'Å' otherwise the shell put the funny chars back.

Also I see the funny '¤' always after the 'Ã', which is wrong, I guess.

Nick
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