[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#665847: Bug#665847: sbuild: Please add option to use plain ASCII characters in graphics

[Roger Leigh]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 06:32:38PM +0300, Jari Aalto wrote:
> The output of sbuild is difficult to handle because the graphical boxes it
> draws are not plain
> 
>     +-------------------------+
>     |                         |
>     | ASCII representation    |
>     |                         |
>     +-------------------------+
> 
> Please add option to choose the output format e.g. with
> 
>     --ascii
> 
> So that the content can be saved and copy/pasted as plain/text (US-ASCII
> encoded).

We can certainly look at doing this.  However, I would be interested
to know what difficulties you are experiencing, since this was not
mentioned in the report.

The box drawing characters are not particularly special--they are
just UTF-8, which is well supported on Debian for over a decade now.
If there are any tools which are not working with UTF-8, it would be
very helpful to know which they are.


Thanks,
Roger

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