Using UTF-8 in grub2 env

Using UTF-8 in grub2 env

[Oleg Strikov]

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Good day!
Is there any way to grub_printf() UTF-8 string?
I wanna make some i18n output using cyrillic symbols (with L"strings"), but
i get only "?????" :(
Thanks!

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Re: Using UTF-8 in grub2 env

[Pavel Roskin]

On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 16:55 +0000, Oleg Strikov wrote:
> Good day!
> Is there any way to grub_printf() UTF-8 string? 
> I wanna make some i18n output using cyrillic symbols (with
> L"strings"), but i get only "?????" :(
> Thanks!

You need to load a Unicode font and switch to the graphical mode with
"terminal gfxterm"

See http://grub.enbug.org/gfxterm

The menu doesn't work in gfxterm yet.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin

Re: Using UTF-8 in grub2 env

[Robert Millan]

On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 12:49:04PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> 
> The menu doesn't work in gfxterm yet.

It works for me.  What problem did you find?

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Re: Using UTF-8 in grub2 env

[Pavel Roskin]

On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 21:22 +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 12:49:04PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > 
> > The menu doesn't work in gfxterm yet.
> 
> It works for me.  What problem did you find?

When in qemu, "configfile (ata2)/grub.cfg" switches to the text mode and
then shows the menu.  Subsequent "c" shows the prompt in the text mode.

Just in case, I made the iso image with grub-mkrescue using all modules
(even ata) and then appended unifont.pff and grub.cfg with

growisofs -r -M grub2.iso unifont.pff grub.cfg

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin

Re: Using UTF-8 in grub2 env

[Robert Millan]

On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 03:35:57PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 21:22 +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 12:49:04PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > > 
> > > The menu doesn't work in gfxterm yet.
> > 
> > It works for me.  What problem did you find?
> 
> When in qemu, "configfile (ata2)/grub.cfg" switches to the text mode and
> then shows the menu.  Subsequent "c" shows the prompt in the text mode.

I can't reproduce this.  What's in your grub.cfg ?

-- 
Robert Millan

<GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call!
<DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak?
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Re: Using UTF-8 in grub2 env

[Pavel Roskin]

On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 00:18 +0100, Robert Millan wrote:

> I can't reproduce this.  What's in your grub.cfg ?

My bad.  It has "terminal console" in it.  It's just a standard grub.cfg
generated by update-grub.

Now I'm getting the graphical menu!

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin

Re: Using UTF-8 in grub2 env

[Robert Millan]

On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 06:29:54PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 00:18 +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> 
> > I can't reproduce this.  What's in your grub.cfg ?
> 
> My bad.  It has "terminal console" in it.  It's just a standard grub.cfg
> generated by update-grub.

:-)

-- 
Robert Millan

<GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call!
<DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak?
(as seen on /.)

Re: Using UTF-8 in grub2 env

[Robert Millan]

On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 04:55:16PM +0000, Oleg Strikov wrote:
> Good day!
> Is there any way to grub_printf() UTF-8 string?
> I wanna make some i18n output using cyrillic symbols (with L"strings"), but
> i get only "?????" :(

Did you setup gfxterm as per instructions in http://grub.enbug.org/gfxterm ?

-- 
Robert Millan

<GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call!
<DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak?
(as seen on /.)