terminfo

Command

terminfo [-a|-u|-v] [term]

Define the capabilities of your terminal by giving the name of an entry in the terminfo database, which should correspond roughly to a ‘TERM’ environment variable in Unix.

The currently available terminal types are

• vt100
• vt100-color
• ieee1275
• dumb

If you need other terminal types, please contact us to discuss the best way to include support for these in GRUB.

The -a (--ascii), -u (--utf8), and -v (--visual-utf8) options control how non-ASCII text is displayed.

• -a specifies an ASCII-only terminal
• -u specifies logically-ordered UTF-8
• -v specifies "visually-ordered UTF-8

If no option or terminal type is specified, the current terminal type is printed.