[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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