On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 9:12 PM, Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 7:56 PM, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 04/30/2018 05:57 PM, Ulf Magnusson wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> Kconfiglib (https://github.com/ulfalizer/Kconfiglib) now has a >>> terminal menuconfig implementation, implemented in plain curses >>> (which is in the Python standard library). >>> >>> The interface should feel familiar to people used to mconf. It has >>> some features that mconf lacks: >>> >>> - Seamless resizing >>> >>> - Unicode support >>> >>> - Runs on Windows (via 'pip install windows-curses', which uses >>> PDCurses) >>> >>> - Improved information displays: >>> >>> * All expressions are split into readable chunks >>> >>> * Menus and comments have information displays >>> >>> - Relatively easy-to-read and easy-to-tweak code. >>> >>> Kconfiglib automatically invalidates symbols as needed, and >>> values can never get stale, which helps. >>> >>> Some upcoming features are mouse support and a search feature that >>> can jump directly to the definition of a symbol. The jump-to feature >>> will use a "show-all" mode in case the symbol isn't visible. >>> >>> See the Kconfiglib GitHub page for screenshots. The menuconfig >>> implementation is at >>> https://github.com/ulfalizer/Kconfiglib/blob/master/menuconfig.py. >>> The docstring at the top has some more information. >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm probably missing some python additive (I hope it's that easy), but >> menuconfig.py is not liking the "degree" symbol in drivers/net/can/peak_canfd/Kconfig: >> >> config CAN_PEAK_PCIEFD >> depends on PCI >> tristate "PEAK-System PCAN-PCIe FD cards" >> ---help--- >> This driver adds support for the PEAK-System PCI Express FD >> CAN-FD cards family. >> These 1x or 2x CAN-FD channels cards offer CAN 2.0 a/b as well as >> CAN-FD access to the CAN bus. Besides the nominal bitrate of up to >> 1 Mbit/s, the data bytes of CAN-FD frames can be transmitted with >> up to 12 Mbit/s. A galvanic isolation of the CAN ports protects the >> electronics of the card and the respective computer against >> disturbances of up to 500 Volts. The PCAN-PCI Express FD can be >> operated with ambient temperatures in a range of -40 to +85 °C. >> >> >> kconfiglib.KconfigSyntaxError: >> Malformed ascii in drivers/net/can/peak_canfd/Kconfig >> Context: b't temperatures in a range of -40 to +85 \xc2\xb0C.\n' >> Problematic data: b'\xc2' >> Reason: ordinal not in range(128) >> >> >> thanks, >> -- >> ~Randy > > Thanks for trying it out! > > You're probably running in the C locale, which implies an ASCII > encoding. That has caused enough trouble that the Python devs decided > to automatically convert it to UTF-8 in Python 3.7: > https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0538/. LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 should fix > it. > > It's a bit silly to have it crash for something like that though. I > could force UTF-8 instead of respecting the locale (though it feels > neater to respect settings), or tell Python to ignore decoding errors. > Should probably do something at least... > > Cheers, > Ulf Leaning towards just forcing UTF-8. It's what you want in 99% of cases, and ignoring decoding errors would be unsafe for Unicode string values. Could make the forcing optional, and default to on... Cheers, Ulf -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
