From cda480d29c9ea7d28b79669fcd34c6da5b4f5416 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Otavio Salvador <otavio@ossystems.com.br>
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 20:18:04 -0300
Subject: syslinux: force latin1 encoding on texts used for labels
syslinux cannot handle utf-8 encoding and then proper encoding needed
to be enforced while printing the label texts.
---
helpers/lh_binary_syslinux | 10 +++++++++-
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/helpers/lh_binary_syslinux b/helpers/lh_binary_syslinux
index 655a424..ca6d7c8 100755
--- a/helpers/lh_binary_syslinux
+++ b/helpers/lh_binary_syslinux
@@ -68,10 +68,17 @@ Restore_cache cache/packages_binary
Install_package
# Local functions
+Utf8_to_latin1 ()
+{
+ VALUE="${1}"
+
+ echo "${VALUE}" | iconv -f utf-8 -t latin1
+}
+
Syslinux_memtest_entry ()
{
LABEL="${1}"
- MENULABEL="${2}"
+ MENULABEL=`Utf8_to_latin1 "${2}"`
KERNEL="${3}"
# syslinux << 3.36 lacks support to file/path
@@ -92,6 +99,7 @@ Syslinux_memtest_entry ()
Syslinux_live_entry ()
{
LABEL="${1}"
+ MENULABEL=`Utf8_to_latin1 "${2}"`
MENULABEL="${2}"
KERNEL="${3}"
INITRD="${4}"
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