[syslinux] any plans for UTF8 in vesamenu.c32?

[Uwe Galle]

Keyboard doesn't matter for me. I simply need some menus with german 
characters that I can use with arrow and Enter keys.

The difference between "Times New Roman" and "Arial" doesn't matter for me 
too (but it would be nice if there is some choice). I simply want to see 
german characters in my menus. Because psf files define each character as 
bitmap line by line (each line with 8 pixels) with at least 256 characters, 
they must also define the special characters at the positions for the german 
Umlaute. According to IBM Codepage 850 the german Umlaute are coded on 
positions 0x81, 0x84 and 0x94 (small letters), according to ISO 8859-1 on 
positions 0xFC, 0xE4 and 0xF6. I assume there will be a psf file at least 
for ISO 8859-1.

My goal is to find a psf file for a certain coding, e.g. for ISO 8859-1. 
Then I will code my configuration file in the pxelinux.cfg folder e.g. 
according to ISO 8859-1 and then I will hopefully see my german Umlaute in 
the menu (with vesamenu.c32). If a psf file uses another code, I will code 
my configuration file in that other code.

Because I didn't find any information how multilingual characters work in 
Syslinux, I assume that it does in the described way. It is the easiest 
possible way.


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> OK. UTF8 is not available in Syslinux. But I also miss some hints in the
> docs what psf fonts syslinux can load. It seems there were never such font
> files in the syslinux tree of kernel.org. I downloaded the last version of
> each main version (1.74, 2.13, 3.86 and 4.05) and searched for *.psf files
> but didn't find any.
>
...
>
>  I need a
> psf console font with special german characters (Umlaute). Especially I 
> need
> it for Pxelinux. There is hopefully no difference between Syslinux and
> Pxelinux in this regard.
>

I'm a little bit confused about your goal.

Do you want to change fonts, or do you want to change the keyboard's
language?

Since you say you are a Windows user, let me put it this way, as an
example. Do you want to change from "Times New Roman" to "Arial"
fonts; or do you want to change from English keyboard to a German
one?

Independently of your current goal, the UTF-8 request may still be a
valid one
for someone else.

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