Bug#243373: non-breaking spaces

[Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg>]

On 19.IV.2004 at 13:34 (-0400)  Joey Hess wrote:
> 
> Non-breaking spaces seem like a more palatable workaround from this
> new perspective. So we're back to why does cdebconf blank out entire
> lines if they start with a NBSP and it's not at a utf-8 terminal?

What is the behaviour of the text frontend?

Anyway, using non-utf-8 terminal with C.UTF-8 locale is a bad idea.
If the terminal is non-utf and the locale is C.UTF-8 then we may use
only ASCII symbols.

> Should this just be worked around by hacking on cdebconf to
> translate NBSP to spaces before display?

Or probably unset the LANG environment variable?  Thus cdebconf (and
its frontends) will know that the terminal is not utf-8.

Anton Zinoviev