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package/petitboot: prefer UTF-8 support

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The petitboot UI looks much nicer in a Unicode locale:

* Items in the language selection submenu use multibyte Unicode
  characters. In other locales, they say "Unable to display text in this
  locale".

* The combination of TERM=linux with a UTF-8 locale is required to
  trigger a special-case workaround in ncurses code[1]. Without
  this, line-drawing characters in the menu look like q's.

Turn on wchar support in ncurses, and add a reminder that a UTF-8 locale
should be generated for things to look right.

[1] https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#no_line_drawing

Signed-off-by: Reza Arbab <arbab@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
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Reza Arbab 2024-02-07 11:51:32 -06:00 committed by Yann E. MORIN
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@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_PETITBOOT
select BR2_PACKAGE_ELFUTILS
select BR2_PACKAGE_LVM2 # devmapper
select BR2_PACKAGE_NCURSES
select BR2_PACKAGE_NCURSES_WCHAR
# run-time dependencies
select BR2_PACKAGE_KEXEC if !BR2_PACKAGE_KEXEC_LITE_ARCH_SUPPORTS
select BR2_PACKAGE_KEXEC_LITE if BR2_PACKAGE_KEXEC_LITE_ARCH_SUPPORTS && !BR2_PACKAGE_KEXEC
@ -18,6 +19,9 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_PETITBOOT
help
Petitboot is a small kexec-based bootloader
NOTE: petitboot looks best in a UTF-8 locale; be sure there
is one listed in BR2_GENERATE_LOCALE.
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/geoff/petitboot/petitboot.html
if BR2_PACKAGE_PETITBOOT