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* docs/grub.texi (Filesystems): Clarify restrictions.

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(Regexp): Mention non-Unicode regexp behaviour.
	(Other): Mention non-Unicode matching behaviour.
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2011-12-25 Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder@gmail.com>
* docs/grub.texi (Filesystems): Clarify restrictions.
(Regexp): Mention non-Unicode regexp behaviour.
(Other): Mention non-Unicode matching behaviour.
2011-12-24 Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder@gmail.com>
Make HFS implementation to use MacRoman.
Make HFS implementation use MacRoman.
* grub-core/fs/hfs.c (MAX_UTF8_PER_MAC_ROMAN): New define.
(macroman): New const array.

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@ -3932,7 +3932,7 @@ appropriate representation is used. All text files (including config) are
assumed to be encoded in UTF-8.
@chapter Filesystems
NTFS, JFS, UDF, HFS+, exFAT, long filesnames in FAT, Joliet part of
NTFS, JFS, UDF, HFS+, exFAT, long filenames in FAT, Joliet part of
ISO9660 are treated as UTF-16 as per specification. BFS is read as UTF-8,
again according to specification. BtrFS, cpio, tar, squash4, minix, minix2,
minix3, ROMFS, ReiserFS, XFS, ext2, ext3, ext4, FAT (short names),
@ -3942,15 +3942,20 @@ but as long as the charset used is superset of ASCII you should be able to
access ASCII-named files. And it's recommended to configure your system to use
UTF-8 to access the filesystem, convmv may help with migration. AFFS and HFS
never use unicode and GRUB assumes them to be in Latin1 and MacRoman
respectively. NTFS, HFS+, FAT and exFAT are case-insensitive however no
attempt is performed at case conversion of international characters so e.g.
a file named lowercase greek alpha is treated as different from the one named
as uppercase alpha. Also similar to POSIX systems GRUB make no attempt at check
of canonical equivalence so a file name u-diaresis is treated as distinct from
u+combining diaresis. This however means that in order to access file on
HFS+ its name must be specified in normalisation form D. On ZFS subvolumes
marked as case insensitive files containing lowercase international characters
are inaccessible.
respectively. GRUB handles filesystem case-insensitivity however no attempt
is performed at case conversion of international characters so e.g. a file
named lowercase greek alpha is treated as different from the one named
as uppercase alpha. The filesystems in questions are NTFS (except POSIX
namespace), HFS+ (by default), FAT, exFAT
and ZFS (configurable on per-subvolume basis by property ``casesensitivity'',
default sensitive). On ZFS subvolumes marked as case insensitive files
containing lowercase international characters are inaccessible.
Also like all supported filesystems except HFS+ and ZFS (configurable on
per-subvolume basis by property ``normalization'', default none) GRUB makes
no attempt at check of canonical equivalence so a file name u-diaresis is
treated as distinct from u+combining diaresis. This however means that in
order to access file on HFS+ its name must be specified in normalisation form D.
On normalized ZFS subvolumes filenames out of normalisation are inaccessible.
@chapter Output terminal
Firmware output console ``console'' on ARC and IEEE1275 are limited to ASCII.
@ -3985,6 +3990,17 @@ makes difficult to enter any text using non-Latin alphabet.
@chapter Gettext
GRUB supports being translated. For this you need to have language *.mo files in $prefix/locale, load gettext module and set ``lang'' variable.
@chapter Regexp
Regexps work on unicode characters, however no attempt at checking cannonical
equivalence has been made. Moreover the classes like [:alpha:] match only
ASCII subset.
@chapter Other
IEEE1275 aliases are matched case-insensitively except non-ASCII which is
matched as binary. Similar behaviour is for matching OSBundleRequired.
Since IEEE1275 aliases and OSBundleRequired don't contain any non-ASCII it
should never be a problem in practice.
@node Security
@chapter Authentication and authorisation