linux-kernel - [PATCH] kconfig/mconf: Initialize the default locale at startup

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Message-ID: <20251014154933.3990990-1-jakub.git@horky.net>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2025 17:49:32 +0200
From: Jakub Horký <jakub.git@...ky.net>
To: linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jakub Horký <jakub.git@...ky.net>
Subject: [PATCH] kconfig/mconf: Initialize the default locale at startup

Fix bug where make menuconfig doesn't initialize the default locale, which
causes ncurses menu borders to be displayed incorrectly (lqqqqk) in
UTF-8 terminals that don't support VT100 ACS by default, such as PuTTY.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Horký <jakub.git@...ky.net>
---
 scripts/kconfig/mconf.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/mconf.c b/scripts/kconfig/mconf.c
index 84ea9215c0a7..1e3322af06d5 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/mconf.c
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/mconf.c
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 #include <strings.h>
 #include <signal.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
+#include <locale.h>
 
 #include <list.h>
 #include <xalloc.h>
@@ -931,6 +932,8 @@ int main(int ac, char **av)
 
 	signal(SIGINT, sig_handler);
 
+	setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
+
 	if (ac > 1 && strcmp(av[1], "-s") == 0) {
 		silent = 1;
 		/* Silence conf_read() until the real callback is set up */
-- 
2.43.0