[Ltib] ugly config menus & LANG

[Michael Jones]

For some time now, my config menus in LTIB have been really ugly, with 
erroneous characters displayed instead of e.g. 
+------------------------+.  It is not only ugly, but on screens with 
lists, it gets garbled as I cursor around.

This applied to my LTIB config, the kernel config, and BusyBox config.  
I noticed that doing a kernel menuconfig outside of LTIB looked fine.  I 
compared "printenv" between the two and saw that LTIB sets the 
environment variable "LANG=C", whereas outside of LTIB this was 
"en_US.UTF-8".

So I stuck in a line in ltib:run_plat_config() to change this back 
before the LTIB config screen to see what would happen:
$ENV{LANG} = 'en_US.UTF-8';

With this change, my kernel config and BusyBox config look good again, 
but the main LTIB config is still messy.  Of the many differences in the 
environment variables, none of them jump out at me as culprits (both 
show LANG=en_US.UTF-8).  Has anyone else bumped into this?  What might 
be the correct way to go about correcting/debugging this, instead of my 
hack?

I use Ubuntu, and have checked out LTIB via CVS.

thanks,
Michael

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