Syslinux - May 2004 - accented characters in isolinux

hey people

I'm new to the list and would like to say thanks to everyone that has 
worked on syslinux/isolinux. It's one of those tools that everyone uses 
at some stage but no-one ever really takes much notice of it - mainly 
because *it just works*. So congrats ...

Now onto my question - I am customizing Fedora Core and I want to change 
the isolinux boot.msg screen to display some custom text. Problem is 
that the text is in french and includes accented characters. These 
characters don't seem to be supported in isolinux. I have tried editing 
the file on a machine that is utf-8 compliant, and also on a machine 
with LANG=en_US.iso885915. These machines give me different characters - 
but both times they are not the correct characters.

It is only the accented characters that give me trouble. A utf-8 
compatible file gives me 2 characters for each accented character in 
isolinux, and the iso885915 gives me one character for each accented 
character.

Any ideas on how I can get accents in my boot.msg?

thanks

pantz

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Paul Pianta wrote:
> hey people
> 
> I'm new to the list and would like to say thanks to everyone that has 
> worked on syslinux/isolinux. It's one of those tools that everyone uses
> at some stage but no-one ever really takes much notice of it - mainly 
> because *it just works*. So congrats ...
> 
> Now onto my question - I am customizing Fedora Core and I want to change 
> the isolinux boot.msg screen to display some custom text. Problem is 
> that the text is in french and includes accented characters. These 
> characters don't seem to be supported in isolinux. I have tried editing
> the file on a machine that is utf-8 compliant, and also on a machine 
> with LANG=en_US.iso885915. These machines give me different characters - 
> but both times they are not the correct characters.
> 
> It is only the accented characters that give me trouble. A utf-8 
> compatible file gives me 2 characters for each accented character in 
> isolinux, and the iso885915 gives me one character for each accented 
> character.
> 
> Any ideas on how I can get accents in my boot.msg?
> 
On most system, the default font is a CP437 font.  If that is not 
acceptable you can load your own font.

Only 8-bit character sets work, however, not UTF-8.

	-hpa