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CaeriTech

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Registered: 2021-07-12

Posts: 39

Syslinux menu and special characters

I'm trying to get the syslinux menu to display special characters correctly.  Specifically the '█' character.

Here is my locale.conf...

LANG=en_CA.UTF-8

I select a kernel font with the boot parameter shown below:

fbcon=font:TER16x32

and my syslinux modules...

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 161K Jan 22 22:31 hdt.c32
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 116K Jan 22 22:31 ldlinux.c32
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 164K Jan 22 22:31 libcom32.c32
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  66K Jan 22 22:31 libgpl.c32
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  24K Jan 22 22:31 libmenu.c32
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  25K Jan 22 22:31 libutil.c32
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.9K Jan 22 22:31 poweroff.c32
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.6K Jan 22 22:31 reboot.c32
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3.1K Feb  7 10:14 syslinux.cfg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3.1K Feb  7 10:13 syslinux.cfg~default~cLX
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  27K Jan 22 22:31 vesamenu.c32

What I'm get with the above configuration are garbled symbols.

Am I missing something from my configs? Have I misconfigured something or perhaps the font I'm selecting does not support special characters?  If so, which font should I be selecting or what configuration changes should I make?

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