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grub2 package

  1. Bug #406142
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 406142

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Felix Zielcke (fzielcke) wrote : Re: [Bug 406142] Re: Grub2 menu doesn't list entries with foreign characters

Am Mittwoch, den 29.07.2009, 23:26 +0000 schrieb Yves Lavoie:
> On 09-07-29 05:48 PM, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> > So UTF8 should be supported as long as unicode.pf2 of course is used.
> > Maybe your grub.cfg has wrong encoding
> Shame on me for nor reading the fine manual. After digging on the net, I
> found the article on fonts (http://grub.enbug.org/gfxterm) and will
> correct my setup.
> A note in /usr/share/doc/grub-pc would have been helpful though. I
> installed grub through apt-get many years ago and one day, after a bunch
> of upgrade, the Window entry stop showing on reboots.
>
> Thanks for your kind help,
>
> Yves
>

I just put your special char in grub.cfg in a menuentry and even with
ascii.pf2 it gets shown just with 4 ?
I tried now even the karmic version and it gets shown.
So the only thing that I can think of why this happens is that grub.cfg
isn't valid UTF-8.

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Felix Zielcke
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