whiptail/dialog/modconf in bterm break on latin1 chars

[Eduard Bloch <blade@debian.org>]

reopen 121186
retitle 121186 whiptail and dialog with latin1 chars looks awfully
severity 121186 grave
quit

Hallo,

while looking for the reason for the current modconf breakage, I traced
it back to bterm. If you use any of non-ASCII latin1 chars, like äöü, it
does not show rest of the line after this char. This happens with the
reduced font file in BFs as well as with a big font file converted from
/usr/src/unifont.bdf. What's up?

Gruss/Regards,
Eduard.
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