Ken Moffat wrote:
AFAIK. we don't claim to support all problems, whether from locales or from anything else - over time, the community's knowledge increases, and people get better support.
It is implicit that the editors believe the book to be good, up to date, and worth following.
The problem is that I had to say "ignore the manual page of mount". This sounds very suspicious. Why should you believe me? You can't check. So the book has potentially wrong information. And, from my viewpoint, it is better to provide no information than wrong answers.
Also, if someone solves the problem, e.g., by writing a FUSE-based implementation of VFAT, the book will still contain the outdated warning, instead of the recommendation to use FUSE.
Thus, I insist that for every little thing that is present in the book, there must be an editor who understands it fully. If there is no such editor, this thing has to be dropped. I don't count as an editor mainly because the last LFS system I built is LFS-6.2, and my knowledge is not up to date.
In the meantime, you want us to go back to ncurses with the ugliness of the screen in the kernel's 'make menuconfig' ?
No, this ugliness appears only if you attempt to start "make menuconfig" on an improperly configured terminal. Don't use UTF-8, don't put the console in UTF-8 mode, don't select screen font without line drawing characters (check yourself with "showconsolefont"), and the non-wide ncurses libraries will display lines and characters correctly. IOW, in LFS 6.0, the setup was correct, and going back to it is not a regression in non-UTF-8 case.
I thought I had pointed out in my reply that not all characters would work, particularly the € (euro) symbol. I don't have any keyboards other than gb,
They differ from the "gb" only by what is painted upon the keys. Get a marker and some sticky tape, and make a non-gb keyboard yourself according to the pictures on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout
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