Bug#256405: crash displaying main menu in arabic

2004-07-14 Thread Joey Hess
Steve Langasek wrote: > Investigation shows that the four Arabic ligature characters were missing > from needed-characters/ar, and that one of these characters was indeed > used in the translation of the iso-scan main menu item. Still waiting for > the results of testing to see whether adding thes

Bug#256405: crash displaying main menu in arabic

2004-07-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 04:16:39PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > > Trivially, figure out which menu items appear in the iso-scan main menu > > that don't appear in the main menu for other images; then remove the > > Arabic translations for those menu items, rebuild, and test to

Bug#256405: crash displaying main menu in arabic

2004-07-14 Thread Joey Hess
Steve Langasek wrote: > Trivially, figure out which menu items appear in the iso-scan main menu > that don't appear in the main menu for other images; then remove the > Arabic translations for those menu items, rebuild, and test to confirm > whether the crash still occurs. > > If it doesn't crash,

Bug#256405: crash displaying main menu in arabic

2004-07-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 01:09:01PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Yes, if the absence of glyphs can cause crashes, the most likely source > > of trouble is that some sequence in the iso-scan main menu string is > > shaped to a code point that's missing from > > installer/build/needed-characters/ar. T

Bug#256405: crash displaying main menu in arabic

2004-07-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 01:09:01PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Yes, if the absence of glyphs can cause crashes, the most likely source > > of trouble is that some sequence in the iso-scan main menu string is > > shaped to a code point that's missing from > > installer/build/needed-characters/ar. T

Bug#256405: crash displaying main menu in arabic

2004-07-14 Thread Joey Hess
> Yes, if the absence of glyphs can cause crashes, the most likely source > of trouble is that some sequence in the iso-scan main menu string is > shaped to a code point that's missing from > installer/build/needed-characters/ar. This *should* have been a > complete list of all characters generate

Bug#256405: crash displaying main menu in arabic

2004-06-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 06:11:38PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Alastair McKinstry wrote: > > I suspect that the arabic shaping code is re-writing the strings and > > using characters > > that were not present in the original string. iso-scan saves space by > > removing all > > glyphs from unifont.bg

Bug#256405: crash displaying main menu in arabic

2004-06-27 Thread Joey Hess
Alastair McKinstry wrote: > I suspect that the arabic shaping code is re-writing the strings and > using characters > that were not present in the original string. iso-scan saves space by > removing all > glyphs from unifont.bgf that were not present in the original string; if > the code > assumes

Bug#256405: crash displaying main menu in arabic

2004-06-27 Thread Alastair McKinstry
DÃ Domh, 2004-06-27 ag 11:29 -0500, scrÃobh Steve Langasek: > On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 04:35:42PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Package: debian-installer > > Severity: normal > > Tags: d-i > > > I booted today's sid_d-i build from a usb stick. At the language > > chooser, I chose the nice new Arabic

Bug#256405: crash displaying main menu in arabic

2004-06-27 Thread Joey Hess
Steve Langasek wrote: > Are there any differences between the (untranslated) strings displayed > in the main menu for you on a usb stick, and those that would be on the > menu for a CD? Perhaps this bug is isolated to a particular codepoint > that's being mishandled. Yes, the different strings wo

Bug#256405: crash displaying main menu in arabic

2004-06-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 04:35:42PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Package: debian-installer > Severity: normal > Tags: d-i > I booted today's sid_d-i build from a usb stick. At the language > chooser, I chose the nice new Arabic choice, and then at countrychooser, > it was at the full list of contries,

Bug#256405: crash displaying main menu in arabic

2004-06-27 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: debian-installer > Severity: normal > Tags: d-i > > I booted today's sid_d-i build from a usb stick. At the language > chooser, I chose the nice new Arabic choice, and then at countrychooser, > it was at the full list of contries, and I realized I

Bug#256405: crash displaying main menu in arabic

2004-06-26 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Some experimentation and it looks like the problem is just with showing > the current d-i main menu, localised to Arabic. I can reproduce the same > problem by booting in expert mode, selecting Arabic, and pressing enter; > when it tries to draw the main me

Bug#256405: crash displaying main menu in arabic

2004-06-26 Thread Joey Hess
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Tags: d-i I booted today's sid_d-i build from a usb stick. At the language chooser, I chose the nice new Arabic choice, and then at countrychooser, it was at the full list of contries, and I realized I din't speak Arabic, and selected the back button. At