On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:08 PM, Frans Pop <elen...@planet.nl> wrote: > On Wednesday 10 February 2010, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan wrote: >> For sure, I've tried it again by choosing to run a shell under d-i >> environment (BusyBox), then mount my /home partition and >> cat some Thai text files. And it works. > > Ah. Wait a second. Did you do this using a *graphical* installer image for > Lenny? In that case what you're seeing is 100% expected and completely and > utterly unrelated to what is possible in the regular installer.
Hey, I used daily built Squeeze installer from here: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/ There is no graphical installer. > The shell you start from the menu in the graphical installer is *not* just > a console! It's more like running xterm or konsole. It uses pango and gtk > and all the other libs that are only available in the graphical installer! I know the difference. And it's not such console. > Unless you can also get readable text after booting the *normal* (newt > based) installer, there is really no point in persuing this any further. It's the *normal* installer. >> 7 rare characters, 10 Thai digits, and 4 Thai punctuation >> marks are missing in total. > > That must simply be because they are not included (quite possibly because > they are not used) in the TTF font used in D-I. Maybe that needs updating. TTF? I think directfb uses bitmap font. And if it's the TTF used in G-I, I as the font maintainer know well they are not missing. In fact, the G-I console does need a monospace font. But currently only one proportional font is provided in the ttf-thai-tlwg udeb. And it's really ugly when used on the G-I console, due to the dotted circles added to combining characters by Pango. Regards, -- Theppitak Karoonboonyanan http://linux.thai.net/~thep/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
