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

[Ferenc Wagner]

"Uwe Galle" <UweGalle at gmx.de> writes:

> 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.

If all you need are ä, ë, ö, ü, Ö and Ü, then the default VGA character
set (code page 437) is enough for you.  If you insist on finding PSF
fonts, then try the console-setup-linux Debian package for example.
http://packages.debian.org/sid/console-setup-linux
-- 
Cheers,
Feri.