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 crashes when trying to > display Arabic with whiptail". > If I understand properly what is mentioned by Evgueniy, this even > happens without libfribidi installed. libfribidi is only responsible for the bi-directional text, not the shaping; shaping was patched into slang directly. > This is somewhat important as it currently makes the Arabic > translation of D-I completely useless.... > I re-attach the test script for you to test. I have been able to > reproduce the crash. > I want to have your advice before reassigning this to newt. I'm pretty sure it's a slang bug, not a newt bug. I.e., my fault. ;) I'll see what I can come up with given that test case, thanks. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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