Bug#256405: crash displaying main menu in arabic

[Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 04:16:39PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Steve Langasek wrote:
> > Trivially, figure out which menu items appear in the iso-scan main menu
> > that don't appear in the main menu for other images; then remove the
> > Arabic translations for those menu items, rebuild, and test to confirm
> > whether the crash still occurs.

> > If it doesn't crash, binary searching will pinpoint the problematic
> > string.

> Well, it's in iso-scan's menu item. Now what?

Investigation shows that the four Arabic ligature characters were missing
from needed-characters/ar, and that one of these characters was indeed
used in the translation of the iso-scan main menu item.  Still waiting for
the results of testing to see whether adding these characters to the
reduced font fixes the problem.

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer