[syslinux] VFAT (was: Interest in NTFS)

[Andreas Kotes]

Hello,

* H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> [20080606 00:34]:
> >> 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.

I was thinking more along the lines of choosing at compile time for the
time being, and supporting just Latin 1 (known as ISO-8859-15, which
contains ASCII) for now ...

   Andreas

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