[PATCH] kconfig/nconf: Initialize the default locale at startup

Jakub Horký posted 1 patch 2 months ago
scripts/kconfig/nconf.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
[PATCH] kconfig/nconf: Initialize the default locale at startup
Posted by Jakub Horký 2 months ago
Fix bug where make nconfig doesn't initialize the default locale, which
causes ncurses menu borders to be displayed incorrectly (lqqqqk) in
UTF-8 terminals that don't support VT100 ACS by default, such as PuTTY.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Horký <jakub.git@horky.net>
---
 scripts/kconfig/nconf.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/nconf.c b/scripts/kconfig/nconf.c
index ae1fe5f60327..198467d0edda 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/nconf.c
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/nconf.c
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 #include <string.h>
 #include <strings.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
+#include <locale.h>
 
 #include <list.h>
 #include <xalloc.h>
@@ -1478,6 +1479,8 @@ int main(int ac, char **av)
 	int lines, columns;
 	char *mode;
 
+	setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
+
 	if (ac > 1 && strcmp(av[1], "-s") == 0) {
 		/* Silence conf_read() until the real callback is set up */
 		conf_set_message_callback(NULL);
-- 
2.43.0

Re: [PATCH] kconfig/nconf: Initialize the default locale at startup
Posted by Nathan Chancellor 1 month, 2 weeks ago
On Tue, 14 Oct 2025 16:44:06 +0200, Jakub Horký wrote:
> Fix bug where make nconfig doesn't initialize the default locale, which
> causes ncurses menu borders to be displayed incorrectly (lqqqqk) in
> UTF-8 terminals that don't support VT100 ACS by default, such as PuTTY.
> 
> 

Applied, thanks!

[1/1] kconfig/nconf: Initialize the default locale at startup
      https://git.kernel.org/kbuild/c/43c2931a95e6b

Best regards,
-- 
Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>