--- Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyway, I'm suspecting something deeper here. Remember that d-i uses a > font reduction mechanism. This means that a lot of glyphs are removed > from the bterm-unifont font at build time, in order to save space.
I think you put your finger on it - the shaped LAA (and sisters) don't seem to be included (that's what the link [1] example notes). The file in question, for reference, is "level2/console-data_debian_po.po". The characters you'd need to include are part of Arabic Presentation Form-B (the shaped set), U+FEF6, U+FEF8, U+FEFA, U+FEFC I also don't see the question mark (not sure if its in any of our text files) but that would be U+061F as well as the comma U+060C and tatweel U+0640 (all common occurrences I'd think). So 7 in all. > The characters to be kept are determined from a special file, on per > language, where each language team has to put the characters needed > for writing the given language. > > I attach the "ar" file we use to this mail. > ﺀﺁﺂﺃﺄﺅﺆﺇﺈﺉﺋﺌﺊﺍﺎﺏﺑﺒﺐﺓﺔﺕﺖﺗﺘﺙﺚﺛﺜﺝﺞﺟﺠﺡﺢﺣﺤﺥﺦﺧﺨﺩﺪﺫﺬﺭﺮﺯﺰ ﺱﺲﺳﺴﺵﺶﺷﺸﺹﺺﺻﺼﺽﺾﺿﻀﻁﻂﻃﻄﻅﻆﻇﻈﻉﻊﻋﻌﻍﻎﻏﻐﻑﻒﻓﻔﻕﻖﻗﻘﻙﻚﻛﻜﻝﻞﻟﻠﻡﻢﻣﻤﻥﻦﻧﻨﻩﻪﻫﻬﻭﻮﻯﻰﻱﻲﻳﻴﻵﻷﻹﻻًٌٍَُِّْٕٓٔ > FYI: all this info came from unicode's code charts [2][3]. [1] http://www.perrier.eu.org/~bubulle/arabic-kbd2.png [2] http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0600.pdf [3] http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UFE70.pdf Hope that helps & salam. - Nadim __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? All your favorites on one personal page � Try My Yahoo! http://my.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Doc mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/doc
