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

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon Sep 24 14:43:03 PDT 2012


On 09/23/2012 04:34 AM, Gene Cumm wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 12:30 AM, Uwe Galle <UweGalle at gmx.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> 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.
> 
> I'm fairly certain that vesamenu.c32 carries the same restrictions as
> everything else in Syslinux and does not support anything but the OEM
> code pages.
> 

Well, supporting UTF-8, the encoding scheme, is different from
supporting an arbitrary number of characters.  We already need Unicode
tables to support VFAT, so it wouldn't be *too* much worse to also
support UTF-8.

	-hpa





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