Comment 23 for bug 8254

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Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 09:57:41 +0300
From: Eugeniy Meshcheryakov <email address hidden>
To: Steve Langasek <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
CC: Christian Perrier <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 Langasek ����
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 06:58:43AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
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>>Steve, Alastair,
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>>Could you have a look at 272136 ?
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>>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".
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>>If I understand properly what is mentioned by Evgueniy, this even
>>happens without libfribidi installed.
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> libfribidi is only responsible for the bi-directional text, not the
> shaping; shaping was patched into slang directly.
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But slang does not execute shaping code when libfribidi is not loaded...

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Eugeniy Meshcheryakov

Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University
Information and Computing Centre
http://icc.univ.kiev.ua

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