[syslinux] VFAT (was: Interest in NTFS)

[H. Peter Anvin]

Andreas Kotes wrote:
> 
>> What I think is pretty clear is that non-ASCII characters will have to 
>> be a "best effort", and almost certainly won't play nice with the 
>> limited internationalization support already in Syslinux.  However, it's 
>> probably not really a big deal.
> 
> I think the same. Supporting codepage 437 (which brings 'ASCII' with it)
> is most likely a must - and codepage 850 ('Latin 1', the bigger markets
> in Europe) would be rather nice, and should cover most worries. All
> others should be used to trouble with filenames on FS level, and most
> likely have found ways to circumvent them already. Perhaps some kind of
> modular approach to the whole codepage-issue would allow to bring them
> in later easily?
 >

You're talking quite a bit of complexity here.  Just supporting ASCII 
would be a *lot* easier.  Doing what you propose above requires at least 
a kilobyte of table space, plus support for loading those.  This is less 
than what is required to load a font, which is 8K, but it's still 
substantial.

	-hpa