On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 06:11:38PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Alastair McKinstry wrote: > > I suspect that the arabic shaping code is re-writing the strings and > > using characters > > that were not present in the original string. iso-scan saves space by > > removing all > > glyphs from unifont.bgf that were not present in the original string; if > > the code > > assumes all glyphs are present, it could crash ... > iso-scan is part of the initrd, so its template strings participate in > font reduction like those of any other udeb. Yes, if the absence of glyphs can cause crashes, the most likely source of trouble is that some sequence in the iso-scan main menu string is shaped to a code point that's missing from installer/build/needed-characters/ar. This *should* have been a complete list of all characters generated by the shaping code, but it's not impossible that I missed one. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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