[haiku-development] Re: Partition name localization in Bootman
- From: "Jorge G. Mare/aka Koki" <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 08:47:26 -0800
Howdy,
Michael Pfeiffer wrote on Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:45:55 +0100>
> Am 16.03.2010 um 13:27 schrieb Ingo Weinhold:
> >
> > On 2010-03-15 at 23:13:25 [+0100], PulkoMandy <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > wrote:
> >>>>> So, the best solution I see is :
> >>>>> * Adding a note in hta/catkeys to tell the translators to keep
> >>>>> using codepage 437 there
> >>>
> >>> This will simply not work for many languages.
> >>
> >> If it doesn't, then leave the english wording and live with it.
> > > This
> >> should not prevent localizing the label for languages where it can
> > > be
> >> done. I know it creates some distinction between latin-script and
> > > others,
> >> which I'd like to avoid whenever possible, but in this case it is
> > > an
> >> hardware limitation. Unless someone is willing to create a vesa-
> > > aware
> >> bootloader that can render utf8...
> >
> > That would require the boot manager to also contain the fonts for
> > rendering
> > the text. That would probably turn out to be a space problem. A
> > possible
> > alternative could be to let the preflet pre-render the text. Without
> > antialiasing that would only take a bit per pixel and could thus be
> > doable.
>
> Someone should create a ticket for that, if it is a desired feature.
I can live with the boot menu not being able to display Japanese. I was
just trying to avoid potential situations of garbled text in the boot
menu due to users entering of double-byte characters for their
partition names in Bootman. This has been addressed now, so I am a
happy camper. :)
Thanks!
Jorge / aka Koki
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