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

[Robert Millan]

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 ?

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