Bug#273718: base-config: Wrong display with Arabic language in D-I 2nd stage

[Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>]

reassign 273718 languagechooser
tags 273718 patch
thanks

Quoting Christian Perrier (bubulle@debian.org):
> Package: base-config
> Version: 2.47
> Severity: important
> Tags: l10n d-i
> 
> THe display for Arabic installations is wrong in 2nd stage. No character is
> shown on the console.
> 
> As the arabic locales are ISO-8859-6, some support should be added to
> termwrap for this. Something like:

ISO-8859-6 only contains basic Arabic characters, so using such
locales for Arabic is not a good idea.

The best solution thus seems to be switching to UTF-8 locales for
Arabic. The attached patch should do it.



diff -Nru languagechooser.old/languagelist languagechooser/languagelist
--- languagechooser.old/languagelist	2004-09-28 18:35:54.000000000 +0200
+++ languagechooser/languagelist	2004-09-28 18:43:59.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # This is the complete list of languages (locales) to choose from.
 Albanian;sq_AL;sq_AL;sq;AL;sq_AL:sq:en_GB:en;kbd=lat0-sun16(iso15)
-Arabic;ar;ar_EG;ar;EG;ar_EG:en_GB:en;kbd=iso06.f16(utf8)
+Arabic;ar;ar_EG.UTF-8;ar;EG;ar_EG:en_GB:en
 Basque;eu;eu_ES@euro;eu;ES;eu_ES:eu:en_GB:en;kbd=lat0-sun16(iso15)
 Bosnian;bs_BA;bs_BA;bs;BA;bs_BA:bs:en_GB:en;kbd=lat2-sun16(iso02)
 Bulgarian;bg_BG;bg_BG;bg;BG;bg_BG:bg:mk:en_GB:en;kbd=ruscii_8x16(cp1251)