Comment 3 for bug 352034

Yeah that appears to make things work again. Reading through the
comments, they switched because this made grub faster and they don't
have proper gettext support (you have to provide the pre-translated
strings in unicdoe like we do).
Makes a lot of sense; 4.9K for covering ascii vs 2.5M for covering unicode.

Colin Watson wrote:
> 2008-07-23 Robert Millan <email address hidden>
>
> * Makefile.in (UNICODE_ARROWS, UNICODE_LINES): New variables (they
> define the codes for arrows and lines used for the menu).
> (ascii.pff): Generate fonts for $(UNICODE_ARROWS) and $(UNICODE_LINES)
> as well.
>
> * util/update-grub_lib.in (font_path): Prefer ascii.pff over complete
> fonts, because the latter are too slow.
>
> Try setting GRUB_FONT_PATH=/usr/share/grub/unicode.pff towards the top
> of /etc/grub.d/00_header, after update-grub_lib is sourced.
>
>

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