Bug#320078: whiptail is unable to handle special characters not present in current locale

2005-10-06 Thread Agustin Martin
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 09:11:21AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 02:50:06PM +0200, Micha Lenk wrote: Is it even not possible to prevent the user from entering non-locale characters? As a user I would prefer to get multiple other but legal characters when I enter a

Bug#320078: whiptail is unable to handle special characters not present in current locale

2005-07-28 Thread Alastair McKinstry
tags 320078 -wontfix severity 320078 normal thanks On Céad, 2005-07-27 at 09:11 -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 02:50:06PM +0200, Micha Lenk wrote: Is it even not possible to prevent the user from entering non-locale characters? As a user I would prefer to get multiple

Bug#320078: whiptail is unable to handle special characters not present in current locale

2005-07-27 Thread Alastair McKinstry
tags 320078 wontfix thanks I'm tagging this 'wontfix' as its unfixable. The problem is that 'characters not in the current locale' are garbage bytes as far as _any_ software is concerned: if you enter some 'non-locale character' whiptail gets a bunch of uninterpretable bytes. it can't even

Bug#320078: whiptail is unable to handle special characters not present in current locale

2005-07-27 Thread Micha Lenk
Hello Alastair, Alastair McKinstry schrieb: The problem is that 'characters not in the current locale' are garbage bytes as far as _any_ software is concerned: if you enter some 'non-locale character' whiptail gets a bunch of uninterpretable bytes. it can't even reliably figure out what was

Bug#320078: whiptail is unable to handle special characters not present in current locale

2005-07-27 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 02:50:06PM +0200, Micha Lenk wrote: Is it even not possible to prevent the user from entering non-locale characters? As a user I would prefer to get multiple other but legal characters when I enter a non-locale character, wich I am able to delete just after. In cases

Bug#320078: whiptail is unable to handle special characters not present in current locale

2005-07-26 Thread Micha Lenk
Package: whiptail Version: 0.51.6-28 Severity: wishlist If I feed my whiptail with characters which aren't present in the current locale whiptail is unable to handle these characters. You can't delete the feeded input whithin the input box. This occurs for instance with the locale LANG=C,