Re: menuentrys with special or non-ASCII chars aren't displayed

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Mittwoch, den 29.07.2009, 16:49 -0400 schrieb Pavel Roskin:
> On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 21:57 +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.
> 
> I cannot reproduce the problem.  A menu entry with Russian, Chinese,
> Vietnamese and German characters is displayed correctly.  The same
> applies to a menu item consisting only of Chinese characters.
> 
> Maybe your menu title has incorrect UTF-8 sequences?
> 

I just tested this now again and can't reproduce either.
Even with ascii.pf2 loaded it gets shown but of course with ? for the
special chars.

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Felix Zielcke
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