Comment 21 for bug 8254

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 23:24:02 -0700
From: Steve Langasek <email address hidden>
To: Christian Perrier <email address hidden>
Cc: Eugeniy Meshcheryakov <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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On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 06:58:43AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Steve, Alastair,

> Could you have a look at 272136=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.

libfribidi is only responsible for the bi-directional text, not the
shaping; shaping was patched into slang directly.

> 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.

I'm pretty sure it's a slang bug, not a newt bug. I.e., my fault. ;)
I'll see what I can come up with given that test case, thanks.

--=20
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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