Bug#272136: [URGENT] Debian Installer: Bug#272136: countrychooser: db_go fails when choosing Arabic as language

2004-09-20 Thread Eugeniy Meshcheryakov
Steve Langasek написав: > On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 06:58:43AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > >>Steve, Alastair, > > >>Could you have a look at 272136 ? > > >>This bug has a very long story. It started by "Debian installer >>crashes on Arabic menu for countrychooser". Now, after a lot of >>in

Bug#272136: [URGENT] Debian Installer: Bug#272136: countrychooser: db_go fails when choosing Arabic as language

2004-09-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 06:58:43AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > Steve, Alastair, > Could you have a look at 272136 ? > 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 "som

Bug#272136: [URGENT] Debian Installer: Bug#272136: countrychooser: db_go fails when choosing Arabic as language

2004-09-19 Thread Christian Perrier
Steve, Alastair, Could you have a look at 272136Â? 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 understan

Bug#272136: [Fwd: Re: [URGENT] Debian Installer: Bug#272136: countrychooser: db_go fails when choosing Arabic as language]

2004-09-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 12:15:53PM +0400, Mohammed Elzubeir wrote: > -Forwarded Message- > From: Mohammed Elzubeir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Documentation and Translation <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [URGENT] Debian Installer: Bug#272136: countrychooser: db_g

Bug#272136: [URGENT] Debian Installer: Bug#272136: countrychooser: db_go fails when choosing Arabic as language

2004-09-19 Thread Eugeniy Meshcheryakov
Christian Perrier написав: > Do you by chance have an idea of what is causing this problem. I > suspect a missing character in the attached file, this character being > indeed used after shaping of the translations for Syria and Saudi > Arabia. > As I can see this is not a bug in debian-installer

Bug#272136: [URGENT] Debian Installer: Bug#272136: countrychooser: db_go fails when choosing Arabic as language

2004-09-19 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Mohammed Elzubeir ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Harakat are those guys U+064B - U+0652 I have tried adding all Harakat to the needed-characters file. Indeed I found some of these in country names such as Saudi Arabia and Syria. I'm not sure that all countries mentioned by Frans Pop as "proble

Bug#272136: [URGENT] Debian Installer: Bug#272136: countrychooser: db_go fails when choosing Arabic as language

2004-09-19 Thread Eugeniy Meshcheryakov
Christian Perrier ÑÐÐ: >>Looks like the problem is coming from diacritics (harakat). I don't see >>stand-alone harakat in your first attachment. Also, the only thing that >>is common between the country names mentioned and the po file you have >>attached, it seems, is that they include the 'sha

Bug#272136: [URGENT] Debian Installer: Bug#272136: countrychooser: db_go fails when choosing Arabic as language

2004-09-19 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 19 September 2004 09:27, Christian Perrier wrote: > Below, you will find an investigation by Frans Pop about bug > #272136. Frans seems to indicate that the problem for instance occurs > with the translation in Arabic of the country names for SY (Syria) and > SA (Saudi Arabia). Note that

Bug#272136: [Fwd: Re: [URGENT] Debian Installer: Bug#272136: countrychooser: db_go fails when choosing Arabic as language]

2004-09-19 Thread Mohammed Elzubeir
-Forwarded Message- From: Mohammed Elzubeir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Documentation and Translation <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [URGENT] Debian Installer: Bug#272136: countrychooser: db_go fails when choosing Arabic as language Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 12:11:41 +0400 On Sun

Bug#272136: [URGENT] Debian Installer: Bug#272136: countrychooser: db_go fails when choosing Arabic as language

2004-09-19 Thread Christian Perrier
> Looks like the problem is coming from diacritics (harakat). I don't see > stand-alone harakat in your first attachment. Also, the only thing that > is common between the country names mentioned and the po file you have > attached, it seems, is that they include the 'shadda' diacritic. > > Other

Bug#272136: [URGENT] Debian Installer: Bug#272136: countrychooser: db_go fails when choosing Arabic as language

2004-09-19 Thread Mohammed Elzubeir
On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 11:27, Christian Perrier wrote: > Salam, > > We have some very tricky problems with the Debian Installer and Arabic > translations. > > I a few cases, Arabic causes D-I parts to crash. This is described in > the following bug reports: > > http://bugs.debian.org/272136 > htt

Bug#272136: [URGENT] Debian Installer: Bug#272136: countrychooser: db_go fails when choosing Arabic as language

2004-09-19 Thread Christian Perrier
> - From: Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bug#272136: countrychooser: db_go fails when choosing Arabic as language Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 15:28:55 +0200 Cc: Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Saturday 18 September 2004 13:07, Frans Pop wrote:

Bug#256405: Bug#272136: countrychooser: db_go fails when choosing Arabic as language

2004-09-18 Thread Joey Hess
Christian Perrier wrote: > > This sounds similar to the also unexplained #256405. > > > By the way, 256405 does not happen anymore Yes it does, I just reproduced it. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#272136: countrychooser: db_go fails when choosing Arabic as language

2004-09-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 18 September 2004 13:07, Frans Pop wrote: > This might indicate there is something wrong with either the first, > second, last but one or last ('other') country name (my guess would be > the second). Hmmm again. I tested some more and the behavior is very inconsistent. Anyway, I decide

Bug#272136: countrychooser: db_go fails when choosing Arabic as language

2004-09-18 Thread Frans Pop
Hmmm. The behavior I am seeing is somewhat different. I can reproduce this both during normal installation and in qemu. I have also made some screenshots of this. 1. Start d-i with linux26 debconf/priority=medium 2. Choose ar in languagechooser 3. Choose countrychooser 4. Countrylist is displayed

Bug#256405: Bug#272136: countrychooser: db_go fails when choosing Arabic as language

2004-09-17 Thread Christian Perrier
> This sounds similar to the also unexplained #256405. By the way, 256405 does not happen anymore Should we close it even if it not explained? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#272136: countrychooser: db_go fails when choosing Arabic as language

2004-09-17 Thread Christian Perrier
> > 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. (Arabic hanging on countrychooser) I will try to narrow down this to either the short country list template or t

Bug#272136: countrychooser: db_go fails when choosing Arabic as language

2004-09-17 Thread Joey Hess
Christian Perrier wrote: > This bug may be reproduced on any sid_d-i ISO image. > > When choosing Arabic as language, the screen flickers instead of displaying > countrychooser first screen. Then this screen is displayed, however it is > displayed in English. > > Tracking down this bug, I found t

Bug#272136: countrychooser: db_go fails when choosing Arabic as language

2004-09-17 Thread Christian Perrier
Package: countrychooser Version: 1.03 Severity: important This bug may be reproduced on any sid_d-i ISO image. When choosing Arabic as language, the screen flickers instead of displaying countrychooser first screen. Then this screen is displayed, however it is displayed in English. Tracking down