#410855 menu and help text broken with Polish UTF-8 locale (pl_PL.UTF-8)

Package:
dselect
Source:
dpkg
Description:
Debian package management front-end
Submitter:
Raf Czlonka
Date:
2013-09-24 10:12:22 UTC
Severity:
normal
#410855#5
Date:
2007-02-13 22:05:26 UTC
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To:
Just as I've written in the subject, some Polish letters are broken with
this locale.

Regards,
rjc
#410855#10
Date:
2007-02-14 13:38:09 UTC
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To:
Can you provide more information?
Can you for example cut and paste what you see (in a gzipped text file, or
a screen shot).
It would be nice also if you could provide what you guess should be the
correct form.

Kind Regards,
#410855#15
Date:
2007-02-14 15:23:14 UTC
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To:
Nicolas François wrote:

Here's the screenshot. I think I don't need to explain which characters
aren't properly displayed.

Regards,
#410855#20
Date:
2007-02-20 23:55:32 UTC
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severity 410855 normal
merge 237675 410855
thanks

Thanks for the screenshot.

I forgot that there is a known issue with wide character strings in
dselect. (see #237675)

This can be fixed by linking against libncursesw5 instead of libncurses5.

I updated the simplified patch sent by Changwoo Ryu.
If it can be applied for Etch (I'm not sure this bug applies to the UTF-8
bugs which can have a freeze exception), then maybe it could be worth
adding something like HAVE_NCURSESW_NCURSES_H or remove the possibility to
link against a simple curses library (because #include <curses.h> is
replaced by #include <ncursesw/curses.h>).

If it cannot be applied to Etch, it would be better to work on the more
complete patch from Eugeniy Meshcheryakov (in #237675 also).

Kind Regards,