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

Sergey Vlasov vsu at altlinux.ru
Sun Sep 23 10:45:37 PDT 2012


On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 06:30:43AM +0200, Uwe Galle wrote:
> UTF8 is a standard today. Nevertheless it seems to be impossible to
> display UTF8 characters in vesamenu.c32. Am I wrong? There is nothing
> about that in the docs. Are there plans to make vesamenu.c32 UTF8
> capable or make syslinux capable e.g. for LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF8?

If you want GRUB 2, you know where to find it :)

However, gfxboot.c32 (or actually the commonly used bootlogo code)
supports UTF-8 (and is used by, e.g., Ubuntu to show the boot menu in
lots of languages).
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