[syslinux] accented characters in isolinux

[H. Peter Anvin]

Paul Pianta wrote:
> hey people
> 
> I'm new to the list and would like to say thanks to everyone that has 
> worked on syslinux/isolinux. It's one of those tools that everyone uses 
> at some stage but no-one ever really takes much notice of it - mainly 
> because *it just works*. So congrats ...
> 
> Now onto my question - I am customizing Fedora Core and I want to change 
> the isolinux boot.msg screen to display some custom text. Problem is 
> that the text is in french and includes accented characters. These 
> characters don't seem to be supported in isolinux. I have tried editing 
> the file on a machine that is utf-8 compliant, and also on a machine 
> with LANG=en_US.iso885915. These machines give me different characters - 
> but both times they are not the correct characters.
> 
> It is only the accented characters that give me trouble. A utf-8 
> compatible file gives me 2 characters for each accented character in 
> isolinux, and the iso885915 gives me one character for each accented 
> character.
> 
> Any ideas on how I can get accents in my boot.msg?
> 

On most system, the default font is a CP437 font.  If that is not 
acceptable you can load your own font.

Only 8-bit character sets work, however, not UTF-8.

	-hpa