Re: ncurses handling in util-linux

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On Thursday 14 February 2008, Karel Zak wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 06:18:07PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Thursday 14 February 2008, Karel Zak wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 04:46:22PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > > On Thursday 14 February 2008, Karel Zak wrote:
> > > > >  Note that move libncursesw to /lib doesn't make sense because all
> > > > >  locale data are usually in /usr/share. Maybe we can move cfdisk to
> > > > >  /usr/sbin (because it's user-friend and more high-level util,
> > > > > ...).
> > > >
> > > > well the interface is currently broken when using a UTF8 locale that
> > > > has a translation.  for example, we now have russian translations,
> > > > but they're broken when the locale defaults to russian unicode
> > > > (ru_RU.UTF8).
> > >
> > >  Yes, I understand. Well, let use the wide version -- the ideal
> > >  solution will be check for the library in /lib only.
> >
> > AC_ARG_ENABLE([ncursesw],[...],enable_ncursesw=$enableval,enable_ncursesw
> >=no) this would default to never using the wide ncurses unless the package
> > maintainer said --enable-ncursesw ...
>
>  Yes, but vice versa ... the default in util-linux is to support wide
>  chars, so we need --disable-ncursesw. Right?

defaulting to on makes sense i guess.  doesnt matter terribly much to me as 
i'll be having the Gentoo ebuild force it regardless based on the user's USE 
flags ;).

> > >  What about to disable locale for systems without the wide version?
> > >
> > > #ifdef HAVE_NCURSESW
> > >      setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
> > >      bindtextdomain(PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR);
> > >      textdomain(PACKAGE);
> > > #endif
> >
> > you mean "#ifndef" ? :)
>
>  No... here is NCURSESW (wide version) :-)

oh right, i was thinking this locale code was to forcibly disable the 
translations, not forcibly enable them when ncurses wide is available.
-mike

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