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

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Freitag, den 31.07.2009, 18:16 +0200 schrieb 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.
> 

The reporter of the 2nd bug report posted his grub.cfg.
His special char is `'
But even with this I couldn't reproduce it.
ascii.pf2 shows 4 ? and unicode.pf2 a small DCS

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Felix Zielcke
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