On Friday 01 February 2008 22:19, Oleg Strikov wrote:
> Good day!
>
> Let's look at grub_cmdline_get() func code:
>
> /* normal/cmdline.c - line 300 */
> plen = grub_utf8_strlen (prompt);
> lpos = llen = 0;
> buf[0] = '\0';
>
> if ((grub_getxy () >> 8) != 0)
> grub_putchar ('\n');
>
> grub_printf (prompt);
>
> xpos = plen;
>
> Idea is very simple - we move cursor `plen` times.
> All is OK when `promt` contains only ASCII symblos. If we use UTF8 strings
> - we get incorrect cursor moving (grub_strlen returns incorrect length due
> to UTF-8 symbol floating byte size).
> There are two ways:
> * encode smth like grub_utf8_strlen ()
> * modify grub_strlen () func and add this feature
>
> I do my best to solve this problem, but what way do you recommend?
PROMPT is always in ASCII. This was my assumption. Is it bad?
Okuji
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