Hi Oliver,
On 18.09.2013 09:21, Oliver Rath wrote:
Hi Klaus!
The PCs I use are uefi-capable, but this is disabled at the moment. They
have also a graphical bios with mouse (!) functionality. Im not sure of
the sense of a mouse capable bios, but there seems to be a market for this.
Unfortunatly your answer does not have a hint for me where to look for
using i.e. semi-graphic symbols or true graphics with ipxe. Am I able to
use an UTF-8 font?
UTF-8? Dream on :D
The PC in the BIOS has an 8 bit character table (and let's ignore
loadable fonts and the possibility to use another bit from the attribute
byte to get a 9 bit charset), the famous code page 437.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437
Klaus
Tfh!
Oliver
Am 17.09.2013 17:42, schrieb Klaus Espenlaub:
Hi Oliver,
On 17.09.2013 17:25, Oliver Rath wrote:
Hi list,
it is possible to use a kind of "native" arrow-symbol for "->"? Which
font is used here? Does it have semigraphic symbols inside?
I'm not telling you what serial terminal I use with iPXE... just using
this as an illustration that such a seemingly simple question has a very
complicated answer.
If you only care about the PC-defined text mode the answer is relatively
simple, because the PC charset is rather well known.
However iPXE has so many options (does EFI provide the PC charset even
if a system starts in graphical mode?) that the impact is not so easy to
predict. Sticking to ASCII is guaranteed to work.
Klaus
Tfh!
Oliver
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