Comment 17 for bug 8254

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 06:58:43 +0200
From: Christian Perrier <email address hidden>
To: Eugeniy Meshcheryakov <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>,
 <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#272136: [URGENT] Debian Installer: Bug#272136: countrychooser: db_go fails when
 choosing Arabic as language

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Steve, Alastair,

Could you have a look at 272136=C2=A0?

This bug has a very long story. It started by "Debian installer
crashes on Arabic menu for countrychooser". Now, after a lot of
investigation, Eugeniy reduced it to "something crashes when trying to
display Arabic with whiptail".

If I understand properly what is mentioned by Evgueniy, this even
happens without libfribidi installed.

This is somewhat important as it currently makes the Arabic
translation of D-I completely useless....

I re-attach the test script for you to test. I have been able to
reproduce the crash.

I want to have your advice before reassigning this to newt.

Quoting Eugeniy Meshcheryakov (<email address hidden>):
> Christian Perrier =D0=BD=D0=B0=D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=81=D0=B0=D0=B2:
>=20
> > Do you by chance have an idea of what is causing this problem. I
> > suspect a missing character in the attached file, this character bein=
g
> > indeed used after shaping of the translations for Syria and Saudi
> > Arabia.
> >=20
> As I can see this is not a bug in debian-installer, I can reproduce it
> with attached script (UTF8-encoded). Probably, it is not a bug in
> shaping/bidi code, I can reproduce it without /usr/lib/libfribidi.so.0.
> So this is bug in newt or slang.
>=20
> --=20
> Eugeniy Meshcheryakov
>=20
> Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University
> Information and Computing Centre
> http://icc.univ.kiev.ua

> #! /bin/sh
> /usr/bin/whiptail "--menu" "menu" "20" "33" "12" "--" "???????????????=
? ????????????????" ""=20

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