[haiku-development] Re: Partition name localization in Bootman

  • From: Michael Pfeiffer <michael.w.pfeiffer@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:41:00 +0100

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

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