[syslinux] Allowed code pages and encodings to write f0.txt through f1.txt?

[Didier Spaier]

On 27/03/2013 03:23, Gene Cumm wrote:
> On Mar 26, 2013 7:44 PM, "Didier Spaier" <didier.spaier at epsm.fr> wrote:
>> So my question are:
>>
>> (1) Which character encodings can be used in message.txt and f1.txt
> through f1O.txt?
>
> Assuming vesamenu.c32 and gfxboot.c32 are not in the mix, BIOS native
> codepage only.  You can use whatever 8-bit characters you want but the
> user's PC's BIOS does the codepage selection.
>
> Some past Ubuntu ISOs did a fancy job with gfxboot.c32.
>
>> (2) Is UTF-8 allowed?
>
> Same.
>
>> (3) I'm guessing that information in /codebase could be useful to answer
> my questions but
>>      don't know how I could use it. Could you please shed some light on
> this directory's
>>      content purpose and usage? (I'm not a programmer).
>
> Assuming you mean codepage/, that's for FAT* long file name translation
> only, translating a 16-bit character to an 8-bit.

Yes that's what I meant, sorry for the typo and thanks for the information.

Didier