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

[Uwe Galle]

OK. According to the german Umlaute that are displayed correctly now 
Syslinux uses IBM codepage 850 by default. Windows uses ISO 8859-1, that's 
why the mismatch. I simply have to save the configuration file in Windows 
with IBM codepage 850. Can you confirm that Syslinux uses IBM codepage 850 
by default? I didn't check all the characters. Perhaps it only uses the 
current BIOS codepage. A small note in the Syslinux doc would be helpful for 
new users.

But nevertheless it would be nice to know where are the psf files that can 
be loaded in Syslinux.


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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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