From c7497ea31b84eb3261a64a2e1a8e80643c26fd9d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Denis Vlasenko Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:16:09 +0000 Subject: build system: introduce FEATURE_ASSUME_UNICODE ls: use it. also do G trick. with UNICODE off: function old new delta ls_main 843 871 +28 show_color 1 - -1 showdirs 500 497 -3 my_stat 100 97 -3 terminal_width 4 - -4 tabstops 4 - -4 status 122 118 -4 static.dotdir 4 - -4 current_time_t 4 - -4 all_fmt 4 - -4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (add/remove: 0/6 grow/shrink: 1/3 up/down: 28/-31) Total: -3 bytes Also was tested with UNICODE on with glibc. --- Config.in | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) (limited to 'Config.in') diff --git a/Config.in b/Config.in index 0a7edf84c..e70caf5a1 100644 --- a/Config.in +++ b/Config.in @@ -21,6 +21,18 @@ config DESKTOP Select this only if you plan to use busybox on full-blown desktop machine with common Linux distro, not on an embedded box. +config FEATURE_ASSUME_UNICODE + bool "Assume that 1:1 char/glyph correspondence is not true" + default n + help + This makes various applets aware that one byte is not + one character on screen. + + Busybox aims to eventually work correctly with Unicode displays. + Any older encodings are not guaranteed to work. + Probably by the time when busybox will be fully Unicode-clean, + other encodings will be mainly of historic interest. + choice prompt "Buffer allocation policy" default FEATURE_BUFFERS_USE_MALLOC -- cgit v1.2.3