Re: Notes about boot-floppies, slang, and newt
On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 12:55, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> Well, use utf-8, is probably the most simple answer
> In fact, I have an impression that -utf8 libs will work
> with any locale, but I might be wrong. It uses
> the locale-charset conversion routines...
They will work with any locale so long as you stick to characters that
are valid in that locale. In the "C" locale this is just the 7-bit
ASCII set; none of the Latin1 accented characters are available. The
part that causes trouble is where the libraries call mbrtowc() in order
to work out how much screen real-estate a string needs. This function
will give up and return an error code if it encounters a character that
it thinks is invalid, which gives you the classic "strings truncated at
the first accented character" syndrome.
This is the reason that the UTF-8 disks will only fall back to English
if framebuffer is unavailable. It would be possible to fix the problem
by shipping an appropriate locale on the root disk, but there isn't
enough space.
p.
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