From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1MWG5U-0000rZ-98 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:49:24 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MWG5S-0000qT-5r for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:49:22 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MWG5M-0000mV-WB for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:49:21 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55231 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MWG5M-0000mD-QT for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:49:16 -0400 Received: from c60.cesmail.net ([216.154.195.49]:20705) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MWG5M-0006X4-8D for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:49:16 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO smtprelay2.cesmail.net) ([192.168.1.112]) by c60.cesmail.net with ESMTP; 29 Jul 2009 16:49:14 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.22] (static-72-92-88-10.phlapa.fios.verizon.net [72.92.88.10]) by smtprelay2.cesmail.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AC41934C6D for ; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:00:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Pavel Roskin To: The development of GRUB 2 In-Reply-To: <1248897425.27629.8.camel@fz.local> References: <1248897425.27629.8.camel@fz.local> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:49:13 -0400 Message-Id: <1248900553.2859.5.camel@mj> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.3 (2.26.3-1.fc11) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: menuentrys with special or non-ASCII chars aren't displayed X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:49:22 -0000 On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 21:57 +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: > When a menuentry contains any character different from [-a-zA-Z] the > menuentry isn't shown at all, even when gfxterm + unicode.pf2 is used. > Is there any reason why this is done? > > On Launchpad there is a bug report open that grub2 can't anymore by > default show chinese characters (because of unicode.pff -> ascii.pff > switch) and now another one about the not shown menuentrys. > So for them it seems it is somehow important. I cannot reproduce the problem. A menu entry with Russian, Chinese, Vietnamese and German characters is displayed correctly. The same applies to a menu item consisting only of Chinese characters. Maybe your menu title has incorrect UTF-8 sequences? -- Regards, Pavel Roskin