[haiku-development] Re: Partition name localization in Bootman
- From: Michael Pfeiffer <michael.w.pfeiffer@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:19:19 +0100
Am 15.03.2010 um 19:04 schrieb François Revol:
>> 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.
To be exact bootman encodes the names in codepage 437.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codepage_437
We could support other codepages as well, but it seems there is no codepage for
Japanese glyphs, so that won't improve the situation for Japanese.
- Michael
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