URL:
<http://gna.org/bugs/?17215>
Summary: Fixed-width tables look bad with multibyte
character encodings
Project: Freeciv
Submitted by: jtn
Submitted on: Sat Dec 4 01:39:26 2010
Category: client
Severity: 2 - Minor
Priority: 5 - Normal
Status: None
Assigned to: None
Originator Email:
Open/Closed: Open
Release:
Discussion Lock: Any
Operating System: None
Planned Release:
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Details:
There are a few places where tables of data are displayed in a fixed-width
typeface, relying on spacing for alignment. These don't work when using a
multibyte character encoding (such as UTF-8) in a locale that uses the
multibyte characters.
The examples I've noticed are the autogenerated help for terrain alterations
(client/helpdata.c:insert_generated_table()) and the spaceship report
(client/text.c:get_spaceship_descr()).
One place that does get this right is the demographics report. This uses
get_internal_string_length() to calculate the display length of strings, and
pads appropriately. The same approach would probably work for the others.
(In most of these places it would be better to move away from text tables,
but that's a chunk of work; fixing this will be easier.)
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