[haiku-development] Re: Partition name localization in Bootman
- From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:04:59 +0100 CET
Le Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:59:01 +0100, PulkoMandy a écrit :
> Le Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:04:12 +0100, François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx> a
> écrit:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> >> My question is: can the boot menu display unicode (including
> > > double-
> >> byte) characters? I assume that I can't, but I would like
> >> confirmation
> >> from those in the know to see how this can be addressed.
> >
> > It can't, because it uses the BIOS provided calls to display text,
> > which uses 8bit encoding, and usually latin1 charset (though asian
> > BIOSes might use others...) so we can really only rely on US ASCII.
>
> So, the best solution I see is :
> * Adding a note in hta/catkeys to tell the translators to keep
> using
> codepage 437 there
> * Checking that the name the user chosen is also in codepage 437
>
> However, it would be better if bootman could use utf8...
Maybe for an EFI loader, but don't expect UTF-8 support in any BIOS
bootloader :p
François.
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