Re: [PATCH 2/2] kconfig: nconfig: fix multi-byte UTF handling

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On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 12:52:31AM -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
> Currently, Kconfig descriptions that use multi-byte UTF-8 characters
> (such as MTD_NAND_CAFE) will have their menu entries dropped from the
> 'make nconfig' ncurses menu, and all subsequent entries in the same
> window will be omitted. This seems to be due to the ncurses 'menu'
> library, which does not traditionally handle UTF-8 >8-bit characters
> properly.
> 
> The ncursesw library ('w' is for "wide") is written to handle these
> UTF-8 characters, and is practically a drop-in replacement at the source
> level. Use it by default, if available.
> 
> Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43067
> Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-kbuild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Martin Walch <walch.martin@xxxxxx>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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