On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 9:47 PM, Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 Went with a more general solution: https://github.com/ulfalizer/Kconfiglib/commit/da40c014398f329b324a2eb9de062344e773dc74 You can now specify any encoding (or None, to use the encoding specified in the environment), with "utf-8" as the default. That default probably saves a bunch of pain in practice. 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
