GRUB issue with locale - question marks instead of polish letters

e. · Yesterday 20:00:34

seth wrote:

I'll maintain some doubt that
GRUB_FONT="/usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2"
can work - make sure to put the file(s) into /boot/grub/fonts and check "lsfonts", https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manua … html#Fonts

I've tried

GRUB_FONT="/boot/grub/fonts/unifont.pf2"

as well as a few other fonts copied directly to grub folder but with no luck either.

e. · Yesterday 20:47:36

Oh, that seems weird to me. After running lsfonts in GRUB console I get for example

Loaded fonts:
Terminus Bold 28

so it seems that the font is loaded but not used/displayed.

seth · Today 10:10:27

Let's see what grub can actually render:

latin-1: Þ
(thorn, not used in centuries, the reason why americans think it's "ye olde" - y was used as substitute for the missing Þ. It's actually "Þe olde" what also gets us very close or old/lower german)

latin-2: Ţ
(T with a funny pirate hook at the bottom)

latin-3: Ŝ
(slavic languages have an impressive amount of strings attached to their letters, but this one's missing and only in latin-3)

latin-15: €
(like *really* important, but not in latin-1 because invented too late)

e. · Today 14:51:11

The thorn sign from latin-1 showed up, but the other three didn't.

seth · Today 14:59:41

Sounds as if grub actually only supports latin1.
Notably the missing € isn't gonna be "oh, someone just forgot about that weird thing"

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