[PATCH 1/1] paint visual host key with unicode box-drawing characters

[Roland Mainz]

On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 4:52 PM, Gert Doering <gert at greenie.muc.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 04:25:25PM +0200, Roland Mainz wrote:
>> General comments:
>> 1. Not all locales use UTF-8 as encoding but can still use the Unicode
>> characters you use (e.g. GB18030 is a modern example and it's use is
>> mandated by all software vendors in PRC China). A quick solution is to
>> use |iconv()| to convert the UTF-8 byte sequences to the local
>> encoding (see http://svn.nrubsig.org/svn/people/gisburn/code/ucs4towchar_t/ucs4towchar_t.c
>
> So the suggestion is to use another external dependency (and one that
> updates quite frequently to the great joy of admins everywhere) just
> to paint some visual sugar which works about as well in ASCII...

Which *external* dependicy ? |iconv()| is part of the POSIX standard
since a *long* time and since I wrote the code in the URL above I can
say "... stick the openssl license code on the derived code and you're
done with it..." (maybe add by email to it so people can complain to
me if they find bugs...).

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Bye,
Roland

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