Bug 68728 – problems with newt-based applications in utf-8

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Bug 68728 - problems with newt-based applications in utf-8

Summary:	problems with newt-based applications in utf-8

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	newt (Show other bugs)
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Version:	8.0
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Matt Wilson
QA Contact:	Aaron Brown
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Blocks:	67218 79579
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Reported:	2002-07-12 18:00 EDT by Leonid Kanter
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:44 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2002-12-27 13:48:55 EST
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mouseconfig in gnome-terminal (the same on text console) (47.96 KB, image/png) 2002-07-12 18:02 EDT, Leonid Kanter	no flags	Details
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Description Leonid Kanter 2002-07-12 18:00:52 EDT

Description of Problem:

newt is unable to calculate widget size if locale charmap is utf-8 and
non-english interface (2-byte characters) is in use

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

newt-0.50.39-1

How Reproducible:

always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. set LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
2. start mouseconfig


Actual Results:

display is broken

Expected Results:

must look like in ru_RU.KOI8-R (RHL 7.3)

Comment 1 Leonid Kanter 2002-07-12 18:02:08 EDT

Created attachment 65188 [details]
mouseconfig in gnome-terminal (the same on text console)

Comment 2 Leonid Kanter 2002-07-12 18:05:45 EDT

as you see, newt reserves dual space for strings on buttons (it counts bytes,
not characters) and for items in list. As a result, upper list widget doesn't
fit terminal size.

Comment 3 Matt Wilson 2002-12-27 13:48:55 EST

Fixed in phoebe

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