From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1HpgTa-0004Uk-Oo for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 May 2007 04:09:14 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HpgTZ-0004Uc-OH for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 May 2007 04:09:13 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HpgTW-0004U8-1k for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 May 2007 04:09:13 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HpgTV-0004U5-Uh for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 May 2007 04:09:09 -0400 Received: from pne-smtpout4-sn2.hy.skanova.net ([81.228.8.154]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HpgTU-0005Yx-KJ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 May 2007 04:09:09 -0400 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (88.193.32.97) by pne-smtpout4-sn2.hy.skanova.net (7.2.075) id 45B62169005F3207 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 May 2007 10:09:01 +0200 Message-ID: <46500228.3040106@nic.fi> Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 11:09:12 +0300 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Vesa_J=E4=E4skel=E4inen?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <20070519102101.GA9673@aragorn> <200705191930.26135.okuji@enbug.org> <20070520073441.GC28837@aragorn> In-Reply-To: <20070520073441.GC28837@aragorn> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-kernel: Solaris 8 (1) Subject: Re: gettext 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: Sun, 20 May 2007 08:09:14 -0000 Robert Millan wrote: > On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 07:30:26PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: >> - what should be done if a terminal is not capable of displaying most >> characters (falling back to original messages? just displaying garbage?) > > I think update-grub should detect wether the system locale is using utf-8, > and if not, set it to C. It can also detect whether gfxterm is being > enabled. > > For users writing grub.cfg by hand, it's their responsability to enable > gfxterm/whatever if they put utf-8 chars in it. > Just a note that as character set is Unicode based it could be possible that some glyphs are not included in fonts. So either we just try to draw it with specified glyph (and get dummy glyph) or it should be detected by some party and just use glyphs that are included. Actually it is also possible to have 0 glyphs loaded ;). I am not so sure is this so nice, but thats the current state.