Syslinux - Sep 2012 - any plans for UTF8 in vesamenu.c32?

Hi,

UTF8 is a standard today. Nevertheless it seems to be impossible to display UTF8
characters in vesamenu.c32. Am I wrong? There is nothing about that in the docs.
Are there plans to make vesamenu.c32 UTF8 capable or make syslinux capable e.g.
for LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF8?

Best regards,
Uwe Galle

On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 12:30 AM, Uwe Galle <UweGalle at gmx.de>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> UTF8 is a standard today. Nevertheless it seems to be impossible to display
UTF8 characters in vesamenu.c32. Am I wrong?  There is nothing about that in the
docs.
I'm fairly certain that vesamenu.c32 carries the same restrictions as
everything else in Syslinux and does not support anything but the OEM
code pages.

-- 
-Gene

On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 06:30:43AM +0200, Uwe Galle
wrote:
> UTF8 is a standard today. Nevertheless it seems to be impossible to
> display UTF8 characters in vesamenu.c32. Am I wrong? There is nothing
> about that in the docs. Are there plans to make vesamenu.c32 UTF8
> capable or make syslinux capable e.g. for LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF8?
If you want GRUB 2, you know where to find it :)

However, gfxboot.c32 (or actually the commonly used bootlogo code)
supports UTF-8 (and is used by, e.g., Ubuntu to show the boot menu in
lots of languages).
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