Re: [PATCH] Kconfig: eliminate abnormal characters displayed under menuconfig

From: Simon Horman
Date: Mon Aug 15 2022 - 13:19:05 EST


On Mon, Aug 08, 2022 at 09:51:47PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 02, 2022 at 06:12:33PM +0800, Liu Song wrote:
> > From: Liu Song <liusong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Use "find ./linux/* | grep Kconfig | xargs file | grep UTF", can find
> > files with utf-8 encoded characters, these files will display garbled
> > characters in menuconfig, except for characters with special meanings
> > that cannot be modified, modify the characters with obvious errors to
> > eliminate the wrong display under meunconfig.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Liu Song <liusong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Suggested-by: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I did suggest fixing everything at once. But I think there are
> actually two problems here. The first is that some are just wrong,
> e.g., drivers/pci/Kconfig using CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DZE instead of
> "s", or net/netfilter/ipvs/Kconfig using NO-BREAK SPACE for no good
> reason.
>
> arch/Kconfig looks like it's using RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK instead
> of the basic APOSTROPHE. That one is debatable; I think it's fair to
> argue that RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK would be preferred if rendered
> correctly.
>
> The second problem is that I think menuconfig doesn't handle UTF-8
> correctly. For example, in a gnome terminal with the default
> LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8, these look fine:
>
> $ grep -A10 MTD_SPI_NOR_USE_4K_SECTORS drivers/mtd/spi-nor/Kconfig
> ...
> 64 KiB block instead of 16 × 4 KiB sectors.
>
> $ grep -A1 MTD_NAND_CAFE drivers/mtd/nand/raw/Kconfig
> config MTD_NAND_CAFE
> tristate "OLPC CAFÉ NAND controller"
>
> But when menuconfig in the same terminal displays that same text, it
> looks like "16 ~W 4 KiB sectors" and "OLPC CAF ~I NAND".
>
> On the other hand, gconfig and xconfig do render these correctly. So
> I think there's something wrong with UTF-8 in menuconfig, and we
> should fix that as well.
>
> Anyway, I'm fine with this patch as far as it goes:
>
> Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx>

IPVS portion:

Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>