Allow setting custom glyphs for progress bar
This allows using custom unicode glyphs to render progress bars.
Requires a new setting GlyphBar =
in pacman.conf
(Use Fira Code to see these glyphs)
The setting is parsed but ignored if ILoveCandy
is also set.
The 6 glyphs in the string are [emptybar_beg, emptybar_mid, emptybar_end, fullbar_beg, fullbar_mid, fullbar_end] in that order.
Technically, any unicode chars can be used, even emoji, but the emoji's double-width will cause chaos, so don't
Try these:
GlyphBar = ╠═╣┣━┫
GlyphBar = पगचदटड
pacman-conf.c
also required a small refactor to be able to handle multibyte characters.
Additionally, makepkg.sh
's write_buildinfo()
which always defaulted to LC_ALL=C
needed a change to not break when using GlyphBar
. It now uses LC_ALL=C.UTF-8
if the user's locale's encoding is UTF-8, and falls back to LC_ALL=C
otherwise.
Feedback is welcome! Let me know if anything needs to be changed, or is missing.
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