[syslinux] Display borked when loading FONT
Ady
ady-sf at hotmail.com
Fri May 24 10:35:13 PDT 2013
...
> As usual, extlinux.conf is written using an ISO-8859-1
> encoding, not UTF-8.
>
...
>
> I need the French accented characters, namely éèêàâùûôç. At worst, I
> could drop the accented letters but I'd be very sad to.
>
FWIW, I just tested Syslinux 5.10-pre2 with menu.c32 and I am able to
correctly display any and all those French characters without the
need for the FONT directive.
I opened my cfg file with cp865. Then I added a LABEL and MENU LABEL
directives. For LABEL, I used basic simple English characters, and
for MENU LABEL I used all those French characters. Then I saved the
cfg file with cp865. The Syslinux menu was displayed as expected (ie.
those French characters were displayed correctly).
I have tested menu.c32 only, not vesamenu.c32.
I guess that for Syslinux to fully support UTF-8 _in the future_, the
adequate procedure and documentation would need more details (for
example, which codepage will be accepted / suggested / recommended /
supported for future cfg files).
Of course, this quick test doesn't respond to the report about the
FONT directive.
Regards,
Ady.
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