Bug#138849: boot-floppies: syslinux screen on boot-floppies created boot-floppy has messed chars

[Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de>]

#include <hallo.h>
David Kimdon wrote on Sun Mar 17, 2002 um 09:41:59PM:

> I installed in french and made a boot-floppy.  When I boot off that
> floppy the message from syslinux is nicely in french for me.  However
> every accented character is garbled, it looks very bad.  

Same for german. The message is hardcoded in dbootstrap translation and
is converted to utf8 as other strings. I do not see a nifty workaround,
but I could replace the non-ASCII characters with their ASCII
transcriptions (ä -> ae). This is even better, I wonder why this stuff
did not break earlier because of latin1 <-> CP437 differences.

Gruss/Regards,
Eduard.
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