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

2004-09-20 Thread Christian Perrier
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 something crashes when trying to display Arabic with whiptail. If I understand

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

2004-09-20 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 something

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

2004-09-20 Thread Eugeniy Meshcheryakov
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

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

2004-09-19 Thread Christian Perrier
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 http://bugs.debian.org/256405 In both cases, the cause seems to be a

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

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. Others,

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

2004-09-19 Thread Eugeniy Meshcheryakov
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'

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

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

2004-09-19 Thread Eugeniy Meshcheryakov
Christian Perrier : 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, I can