Hello Eric, or anyone else affected, Accepted friendly-recovery into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/friendly- recovery/0.2.31ubuntu1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.
Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users. If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-xenial to verification-done-xenial. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-xenial. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed. Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of STS Sponsors, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1752362 Title: garbled recovery mode in Simplified Chinese language OS install Status in friendly-recovery package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in friendly-recovery source package in Xenial: Fix Committed Status in friendly-recovery source package in Artful: Fix Committed Status in friendly-recovery source package in Bionic: Fix Released Bug description: [Impact] The menu is garbled in recovery mode when using Chinese characters. [Test Case] 1. Install Ubuntu with selected Simplified Chinese language. 2. Boot to recovery mode. 3. Most character won't be readable and will appear as black square. (See "Bug attachment" for a screenshot) [Regression Potential] Regression risk is low. The fix simply, in Recovery mode only, default the system variables to something the console can output when detecting a blacklisted LANG in lib/recovery-mode/l10n.sh It doesn't affect/modify/change/... the system variables when booting in "normal" mode. [Other Info] Old LP reference : https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/573502 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/friendly-recovery/+bug/1752362/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~sts-sponsors Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~sts-sponsors More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

