[syslinux] Icon or CJK fonts in MENU TITLE, is that possible in the future ?

Steven Shiau steven at nchc.org.tw
Thu Sep 28 03:19:48 PDT 2006


Ha, I know this is really a crazy idea. please ignore that.

Steven.

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> steven at nchc.org.tw wrote:
>> First I would like to say thank you to HPA for providing some really
>> nice features in recently syslinux version.
>> About new functions, actually I have another radical idea, since we
>> are in Asia, most of the users here they would like to see some local
>> fonts for the syslinux/pxelinux menu. I am wondering is that possible,
>> in the future, the syslinux/pxelinux menu can support CJK fonts or
>> icon ? This will be a very friendly feature for those people their
>> mother tongue is not English.
>> If it's too radical, just ignore that.
>> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Supporting the kind of large fonts needed for CJK is quite difficult in
> a restricted environment without memory management like com32 (I'm not
> saying it's impossible, though.)  However, if all you're concerned about
> is MENU TITLE, you could simulate it by just leaving the title blank and
> having your text be part of the background image in the appropriate spot.
> 
>     -hpa

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