reassign 273718 languagechooser tags 273718 patch thanks Quoting Christian Perrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: base-config > Version: 2.47 > Severity: important > Tags: l10n d-i > > THe display for Arabic installations is wrong in 2nd stage. No character is > shown on the console. > > As the arabic locales are ISO-8859-6, some support should be added to > termwrap for this. Something like:
ISO-8859-6 only contains basic Arabic characters, so using such locales for Arabic is not a good idea. The best solution thus seems to be switching to UTF-8 locales for Arabic. The attached patch should do it.
diff -Nru languagechooser.old/languagelist languagechooser/languagelist --- languagechooser.old/languagelist 2004-09-28 18:35:54.000000000 +0200 +++ languagechooser/languagelist 2004-09-28 18:43:59.000000000 +0200 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ # # This is the complete list of languages (locales) to choose from. Albanian;sq_AL;sq_AL;sq;AL;sq_AL:sq:en_GB:en;kbd=lat0-sun16(iso15) -Arabic;ar;ar_EG;ar;EG;ar_EG:en_GB:en;kbd=iso06.f16(utf8) +Arabic;ar;ar_EG.UTF-8;ar;EG;ar_EG:en_GB:en Basque;eu;[EMAIL PROTECTED];eu;ES;eu_ES:eu:en_GB:en;kbd=lat0-sun16(iso15) Bosnian;bs_BA;bs_BA;bs;BA;bs_BA:bs:en_GB:en;kbd=lat2-sun16(iso02) Bulgarian;bg_BG;bg_BG;bg;BG;bg_BG:bg:mk:en_GB:en;kbd=ruscii_8x16(cp1251)
