From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: menuentrys with special or non-ASCII chars aren't displayed
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:16:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090731161644.GI14675@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1248897425.27629.8.camel@fz.local>
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 09:57:05PM +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.
Perhaps this happened with a non-UTF-8 charset (which we won't support), or
maybe Chinese characters aren't in our font file.
Bean, do you know something about Chinese support in unicode.pff ?
--
Robert Millan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-31 16:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-29 19:57 menuentrys with special or non-ASCII chars aren't displayed Felix Zielcke
2009-07-29 20:49 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-07-29 21:02 ` Felix Zielcke
2009-07-31 16:16 ` Robert Millan [this message]
2009-07-31 16:21 ` Felix Zielcke
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