[gPXE] unicode support in gPXE

[Gene Cumm]

2011/3/29 何闯 <justhechuang at 163.com>:
>>What are you looking to do?  Use the "echo" command within a script to
>>print out something for an end user to see perhaps?  Anything after
>>gPXE boots to something else (ie Linux kernel, an NBP (Network Boot
>>Program) like PXELINUX, SAN disk) will depend on that target as gPXE
>>will no longer have control.

> Thanks for your quick response.

> I see that menu in syslinux supports unicode with very beautiful background
> pcitures.
> Can welcome message in gPXE have a chinese version?  We may be *VERY*
> excited with that!!!

I'm not sure what you mean.  To my knowledge, Syslinux's menu.c32 also
depends on the underlying BIOS.

It's possible that you may be referring to gfxboot, a graphical boot
selection system whose intention (I believe) was to make it possible
to create the same looking menu in Syslinux, Grub and Lilo.  As
implemented with Syslinux, there has been a significant change from an
assembly patch outside of Syslinux's package to a COMBOOT module to a
COM32 module.  http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/GFXBoot.c32
gives some background.

If you could provide a reference, perhaps some light can be shed on
the topic.  Pictures might do but the addition of other configuration
details (even by links to web pages) would help more solidly determine
the situation behind what you have seen.

-- 
-Gene