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

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

On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:24:58 +0100
Nick Warne <ni...@uk...> wrote:

> 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.

OK, I uploaded the changes - I wonder if it it svn that mangles the
stuff?

Nick
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