Re: menuentrys with special or non-ASCII chars aren't displayed

[Pavel Roskin]

On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 21:57 +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> When a menuentry contains any character different from [-a-zA-Z] the
> menuentry isn't shown at all, even when gfxterm + unicode.pf2 is used.
> Is there any reason why this is done?
> 
> On Launchpad there is a bug report open that grub2 can't anymore by
> default show chinese characters (because of unicode.pff -> ascii.pff
> switch) and now another one about the not shown menuentrys.
> So for them it seems it is somehow important.

I cannot reproduce the problem.  A menu entry with Russian, Chinese,
Vietnamese and German characters is displayed correctly.  The same
applies to a menu item consisting only of Chinese characters.

Maybe your menu title has incorrect UTF-8 sequences?

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin