[PATCH] kconfig/mconf: Initialize the default locale at startup
From: Jakub Horký
Date: Tue Oct 14 2025 - 11:50:20 EST
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@xxxxxxxxx>
---
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