From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1MWumr-0001U7-0m for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:16:53 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MWump-0001Tx-T8 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:16:51 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MWuml-0001Th-Ex for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:16:51 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47456 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MWuml-0001Te-Ao for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:16:47 -0400 Received: from xvm-190-8.ghst.net ([217.70.190.8]:43807 helo=aybabtu.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MWumk-0001GC-Uv for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:16:47 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MWumj-0000Sg-Gz for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:16:45 +0000 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MWumi-0003wb-WE for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:16:45 +0200 Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:16:44 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20090731161644.GI14675@thorin> References: <1248897425.27629.8.camel@fz.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1248897425.27629.8.camel@fz.local> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:16:52 -0000 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 The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."