Am 15.03.2010 um 20:59 schrieb PulkoMandy: > 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 I can do that tomorrow. > * Checking that the name the user chosen is also in codepage 437 Bootman somewhat does that already. It shows a preview of the names as they will be shown in the boot menu, before the boot loader is written to disk. - Michael