Bug#543668: grub skips entries with accent in title

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

clone 543668 -1
retitle -1 should detect windows encoding to properly convert windows boot title
severity -1 wishlist
thanks

Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko, le Tue 09 Feb 2010 13:37:52 +0100, a écrit :
> Looks like you actually have 2 problems:
> 1) os-prober giving information in latin1 and not utf-8.
> Can you run:
> sudo os-prober > report.bin
> then send resulting report.bin? Don't forget .bin to avoid file to be
> reencoded

This is actually fixed by the following:

			# Colons not allowed; replace by spaces
			# Accented characters (non UTF-8) cause debconf to
			# hang, so we fall back to the default if the name
			# contains any weird characters.
			long="$(grep -e "$grepexp" "$2/$ini" | cut -d '"' -f2 | \
				tr ':' ' ' | LC_ALL=C grep -v '[^a-zA-Z0-9 &()/_-]')"

That's however a bit poor, so cloning a wishlist bug. Phcoder suggested
on irc to use bootfont.bin to know the encoding, possibly simply through
a hash table of well-known font files.

Samuel