On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 01:34:20PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> This is related to bug #189026 on debconf. The problem is that leading
> spaces are eaten both in Default: lines in the templates file, and in
> the SET command in the debconf protocol. We really need a solution that
> deals with all of t
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Bug#243373: newt frontend replaces any line starting with a non-breaking space with a
blank line, unless in utf-8 locale
Bug reassigned from package `cdebconf' to `libnewt0.51'.
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On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 04:34:02PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> > On 19.IV.2004 at 20:40 (-0400) Joey Hess wrote:
> > >
> > > Actually, the only way I can get it to work there is by
> > > setting LANG=C.UTF-8, and belive me, that looks very
Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> On 19.IV.2004 at 20:40 (-0400) Joey Hess wrote:
> >
> > Actually, the only way I can get it to work there is by
> > setting LANG=C.UTF-8, and belive me, that looks very funky.
>
> I also reproduced this. It seams as if utf8 is hardcoded somehow in
> the newt frontend. Th
On 19.IV.2004 at 20:40 (-0400) Joey Hess wrote:
>
> Actually, the only way I can get it to work there is by
> setting LANG=C.UTF-8, and belive me, that looks very funky.
I also reproduced this. It seams as if utf8 is hardcoded somehow in
the newt frontend. The text frontend works fine.
Anton Z
Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> Anyway, using non-utf-8 terminal with C.UTF-8 locale is a bad idea.
> If the terminal is non-utf and the locale is C.UTF-8 then we may use
> only ASCII symbols.
>
> Or probably unset the LANG environment variable? Thus cdebconf (and
> its frontends) will know that the termi
On 19.IV.2004 at 13:34 (-0400) Joey Hess wrote:
>
> Non-breaking spaces seem like a more palatable workaround from this
> new perspective. So we're back to why does cdebconf blank out entire
> lines if they start with a NBSP and it's not at a utf-8 terminal?
What is the behaviour of the text fro
This is related to bug #189026 on debconf. The problem is that leading
spaces are eaten both in Default: lines in the templates file, and in
the SET command in the debconf protocol. We really need a solution that
deals with all of these, and right now using escaped characters (\t, \n,
\s or '\ ') s
clone 243373 -1
retitle -1 Cannot give partition to be formated a mount point or file system
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* Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-16 19:45]:
> AFAIK it's only a cosmetic problem.
In which case my original report contains two different issues, both
important.
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* Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-16 19:45]:
> I have seen the behavior you describe when I tried to use a hurd
> partition as a linux root filesystem, iirc.
Well, my partitions are normal Linux partitions, and they definitely
worked with and older version of partman.
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Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-14 14:32]:
> > Partman needs to stop using non-breaking spaces. I thought I had this fixed,
> > but Anton put the non-breaking spaces back in:
>
> Just to clarify: is this just a display problem, or does this also
> explain why onc
* Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-14 14:32]:
> Partman needs to stop using non-breaking spaces. I thought I had this fixed,
> but Anton put the non-breaking spaces back in:
Just to clarify: is this just a display problem, or does this also
explain why once I choose a partition and go to "fo
On 14.IV.2004 at 15:54 (-0400) Joey Hess wrote:
> Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> > On 14 April 2004 (Wednesday) at 14:32 (-0400) Joey Hess wrote:
> > >
> > > I think the default option may need to have the leading space escaped so
> > > it looks the same as what is in the choices list. So you'd have:
> >
Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> On 14 April 2004 (Wednesday) at 14:32 (-0400) Joey Hess wrote:
> >
> > I think the default option may need to have the leading space escaped so
> > it looks the same as what is in the choices list. So you'd have:
> >
> > Choices: \ a, \ b, \ c
> > Default: \ b
>
>
On 14 April 2004 (Wednesday) at 14:32 (-0400) Joey Hess wrote:
>
> I think the default option may need to have the leading space escaped so
> it looks the same as what is in the choices list. So you'd have:
>
> Choices: \ a, \ b, \ c
> Default: \ b
I tried different ways with escaped spa
Partman needs to stop using non-breaking spaces. I thought I had this fixed,
but Anton put the non-breaking spaces back in:
- definitions.sh (debconf_select): convert the first space in the
options to non-break space as otherwise the default options is
ignored if it starts with spa
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