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  1. Bug #11922
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Comment 26 for bug 11922

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In , Nicolas François (nicolas-francois) wrote : Re: Bug#410855: menu and help text broken with Polish UTF-8 locale (pl_PL.UTF-8)

severity 410855 normal
merge 237675 410855
thanks

On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 03:23:14PM +0000, <email address hidden> wrote:
> Nicolas François wrote:
> > Can you provide more information?
> > Can you for example cut and paste what you see (in a gzipped text file, or
> > a screen shot).
> > It would be nice also if you could provide what you guess should be the
> > correct form.
>
> Here's the screenshot. I think I don't need to explain which characters
> aren't properly displayed.

Thanks for the screenshot.

I forgot that there is a known issue with wide character strings in
dselect. (see #237675)

This can be fixed by linking against libncursesw5 instead of libncurses5.

I updated the simplified patch sent by Changwoo Ryu.
If it can be applied for Etch (I'm not sure this bug applies to the UTF-8
bugs which can have a freeze exception), then maybe it could be worth
adding something like HAVE_NCURSESW_NCURSES_H or remove the possibility to
link against a simple curses library (because #include <curses.h> is
replaced by #include <ncursesw/curses.h>).

If it cannot be applied to Etch, it would be better to work on the more
complete patch from Eugeniy Meshcheryakov (in #237675 also).

Kind Regards,
--
Nekral