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Bug#256405: crash displaying main menu in arabic



On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 01:09:01PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > 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.

> How would I go about tracking this down? Bear in mind that I know beans about
> this stuff.

... ah, but of course if there's only one string of interest, the binary
search would be very short. ;)

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer




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