Hebrew has the same problem as Arabic so I guess RTL would work perfectly and there are Hebrew terminal fonts.
The solution implemented in the Debian installation is just great but AFAIK is not perfect. I reported a bug about this issue against failsafe-x in the past. Kind regards, Yaron Shahrabani <Hebrew translator> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:55 PM, Khaled Hosny <[email protected]>wrote: > On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 01:04:26AM +0900, Nobuto MURATA wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA512 > > > > Hello Ubuntu Translators, > > > > I'd like to ask translators to test whether your locales are affected by > > Bug #573502[1]. This bug is related to "friendly-recovery" which is used > > in order to solve unbootable situation that X setting is broken or disks > > are fully filled. It can be accessed from an entry on bootloader. > > > > Currently in some locales like Chinese, Japanese and Korean, the menu > > has unreadable characters. You can see the example screenshot[2]. This > > issue comes from limited fonts which we can use on console. > > > > To show all characters properly, friendly-recovery is needed to use > > framebuffer. Implement of the solution would take some time. So we are > > going to make loading translations disable on affected locales as a > > workaround. > > > > To do so, we need complete list of affected locales. You can test > > whether your locale is affected along with the steps below. Currently > > zh_*, ja_JP and ko_KR are confirmed as affected, so no need to test on > > that locales. > > > > 1. Open gnome-terminal. Then execute the line below. > > $ /usr/share/recovery-mode/recovery-menu > > > > 2. You can see menus fully translated. Then press Esc. > > > > 3. Go to the console by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F2 and input username and > > password to login. > > > > 4. Execute the line below again and see whether unreadable characters > exist. > > $ /usr/share/recovery-mode/recovery-menu > > > > 5. Then press Esc, and you can go back to the desktop by pressing Alt+F7. > > For Arabic (testing ar_EG locale, but should be true for other ar_* > ones), with default console font all the Arabic text is unreadable, but > if change console font to an Arabic capable one (any of > /usr/share/consolefonts/Arabic-* fonts) I get readable Arabic text (with > proper right to left and shaping), so for Arabic a fix would involve > choosing a suitable default console font. IIRC, some previous Ubuntu > release had suitable Arabic font by default, I don't remember which one > as it have been years since I tried Arabic in the console (I'm using > 10.04 right now). > > Regards, > Khaled > > -- > Khaled Hosny > Egyptian > > -- > ubuntu-translators mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-translators >
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