[PATCH xinput] use ASCII art when UTF-8 environment is not available

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Thu Dec 9 17:11:25 PST 2010


On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 01:30:18PM -0500, James Cloos wrote:
> >>>>> "PH" == Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> writes:
> 
> PH> urgh, no. I'd rather change the output ASCII only than have if/else
> PH> conditions for the output.
> 
> Unfortunate.  Actually using utf8 is better than sticking with ancient
> ascii, whenever the locale supports it.

it is unfortunate, but for a tool like xinput having minimal,
easy-to-maintain code is more important than pretty. I'd prefer to just
ignore non-UTF8 terminals, but I guess that's still too optimistic for 2010.

Cheers,
  Peter


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