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#### 16.2.4 terminfo

Command: terminfo [`-a`|`-u`|`-v`] [`-g WxH`] [term] [type] ¶

  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`’, and ‘`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; and `-v` specifies "visually-ordered UTF-8" (in other words, arranged such that a terminal emulator without bidirectional text support will display right-to-left text in the proper order; this is not really proper UTF-8, but a workaround).

  The `-g` (`--geometry`) can be used to specify terminal geometry.

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