libdialog & wide charcter support (Was: Request for testing/comments -- import of new dialog/libdialog)

[Nathan Whitehorn]

On 02/05/11 03:04, Anonymous wrote:
> Nathan Whitehorn<nwhitehorn at freebsd.org>  writes:
>
>> As part of work on a new installer, I would like to update the base
>> system dialog and libdialog to the newer one provided by Thomas Dickey
>> (http://invisible-island.net/dialog/, ports as devel/cdialog). This is
>> a much nicer, fuller featured version of dialog that simplifies the
>> creation of new dialog-using tools (a longstanding impediment to a new
>> versions of sade, sysinstall, etc.), and is under a marginally better
>> license (LGPL2 instead of GPL2).
>>
>> Patches to effect the import can be found at:
>> - http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/libdialog-update.diff
>
> Unlike devel/cdialog your diff (and r217309) has wide character support
> disabled. Was this intentional? For example, without it for each UTF-8
> character there'd be extra space padding in editobox, inputbox, fselect,
> dselect, etc.
>

Thanks for the report! This is fixed in r218331.
-Nathan