Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH 1/1] OvmfPkg/PlatformBootManagerLib: use utf8 for the serial console.

["Ard Biesheuvel" <ardb@kernel.org>]

On Thu, 23 Mar 2023 at 09:20, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 10:31:32AM -0600, Rebecca Cran wrote:
> > On 3/22/23 10:20 AM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > > On Fri, 17 Mar 2023 at 13:19, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > > Time to leave behind relics from the last century and arrive in the
> > > > modern world.  Drop PC-ANSI Terminal Type for the serial console, use
> > > > UTF-8 instead.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
> > > No objections here but how will I be able to observe the difference?
> >
> > I'm not sure if it's as simple as this or if it depends on the terminal,
> > TERM setting etc.,
>
> It does.  It depends on the locale the terminal application is
> running in.  These days that is a utf-8 locale in 99% of the cases,
> i.e. "de_DE.UTF-8" for me.
>
> > but I saw a difference when I opened the UiApp and opened
> > the drop-down "Select Language".
> >
> > Before the patch, it showed "Fran?ais", and after, "Français".
>
> Yes, essentially everything which is not ascii shows correct now,
> including the line-drawing characters which you can see in alot
> of places in UiApp on the serial console.
>


Merged as #4164 - thanks