Package: rolo Severity: important Hi,
UTF-8 in rolo is broken, lines including UTF-8 are simply not displayed. Build-depending on libncursesw5-dev and linking against menuw and formw (libncursesw5) instead of menu and form (libncurses5) fixes this partly. The following example shows what would be displayed after linking against menuw and formw when one decorates entry 26 of the example file with umlauts. As you can see, the beginning of the columns is messed up. This example is when entry 26 is selected, if it is not selected the telephone number is displayed correctly but the other columns look still like in this example. 25 Thomson Nigel [email protected] +420-2607-1234-123 - 26 Träcy Richürd [email protected]öm +1-555-222-0001 27 Winter Alex [email protected] +1-413-545-2911 Fixing this probably requires something like g_utf8_strlen(str, -1), which is included in glib but can easily be reimplemented, to be used instead of strlen (or whatever rolo uses for detecting the number of characters of the string). Alternatively mbstowcs(NULL, str, 0) should also work but I did not use this to determine the number of characters of strings until now, so I can't be sure. Correctly displaying columns when using double wide characters (e.g. タ) will not work when g_utf8_strlen(str, -1) or mbstowcs(NULL, str, 0) is used since they return the number of characters instead of the number of columns needed to display a string. Maybe you find a sane way to fix get the number of columns needed, e.g. by combining mbstowcs() and wcswidth(). I don't consider the wide character support to be a part of this bug report. I'd be happy when you would at least link against menuw and formw, feel free to set the severity of this bug to minor when the linking has been done but correctly displaying the columns has not yet been implemented. Regards Carsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
