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Bug 68728

Summary: problems with newt-based applications in utf-8
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Leonid Kanter <leon>
Component: newtAssignee: Matt Wilson <msw>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Aaron Brown <abrown>
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mouseconfig in gnome-terminal (the same on text console) none

Description Leonid Kanter 2002-07-12 22:00:52 UTC 
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 22:02:08 UTC 
Created attachment 65188 [details]
mouseconfig in gnome-terminal (the same on text console)
Comment 2 Leonid Kanter 2002-07-12 22:05:45 UTC 
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 18:48:55 UTC 
Fixed in phoebe