Comment 2 for bug 8254

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Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 15:26:03 -0400
From: Joey Hess <email address hidden>
To: Christian Perrier <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#272136: countrychooser: db_go fails when choosing Arabic as language

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Christian Perrier wrote:
> This bug may be reproduced on any sid_d-i ISO image.
>=20
> When choosing Arabic as language, the screen flickers instead of displayi=
ng
> countrychooser first screen. Then this screen is displayed, however it is
> displayed in English.
>=20
> Tracking down this bug, I found that countrychooser postinst fails at the=
 db_go call
> in the state machine:
>=20
> if db_go; then
> STATE=3D$(($STATE + 1))
> =20
> This makes the debian-installer script fail...It is then restarted by ini=
t,
> but the environment then lacks the LANG variable, so countrychooser posti=
nst
> is displayed in English and the whole installer then continues in English.
>=20
> This seems related to the display of the Arabic screen, with country names
> in Arabic.
>=20
> This does not happen in RC1....in which the country names were not
> translated to Arabic because of incomplete iso-codes translation.
>=20
> I suspect some nasty thing related to Arabic display in these conditions =
but
> I have no idea how to track this down.

This sounds similar to the also unexplained #256405.

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see shy jo

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