Hi Baruch, Unfortunately I cannot test this yet, I don't know how to get qemu installed on my Fedora machine... Got to compile it sometime.
I think FriBidi is being passed escape sequences. Not sure. You may want to ask the Arabeyes people (Google for it.) It was them who added FriBidi support to d-i. Cheers, behdad On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Baruch Even wrote: > Hi, > > I've got the following bug report for fribidi about it's interaction > with slang2. Could you help with this? > > Joey Hess wrote: > > Package: libfribidi0 > > Version: 0.10.5-2 > > Severity: important > > Tags: d-i > > > > Current d-i dailies use slang2, and the seems to break fribidi. A > > typical example is the display of the arabic translation of the word > > "Arabic", which appears in the language selection screen of d-i. Half of > > this word is displayed, apparently correctly, but then it displays > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]@" after. Another example is the d-i main menu which, if > > Arabic is > > selected as the language, features some menu items that are long strings > > of binary gibberish. > > You can test it easily with the following commands: > wget > http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/i386/current/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso > dd if=/dev/zero of=hd bs=1M count=250 > qemu -cdrom debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso -hda hd -boot d > > This will run the installer in a qemu session. > > Baruch > > --behdad http://behdad.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
