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
