Bug#409420: g-i: Addtional chars appear in screen titles (which aren't in the translation)

[Attilio Fiandrotti <attilio.fiandrotti@gmail.com>]

Lior Kaplan wrote:
> Package: installation-reports
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm attaching a few screen shots taken from g-i mini iso from
> http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/netboot/gtk/ using
> Hebrew for installation.
>
> During the installation I've noticed that before some of the titles
> there is additional character or sign.
>
> I've marked them with a red square. Don't forget Hebrew is RTL, so the
> marked chars come before the title itself.
>
> I've added a screen shot of the translated string from the first file,
> just to prove this sign doesn't come from the translation.
>
> I haven't notice this behavior with other languages (Arabic, vitenamise
> and Spanish), but these are languages I can't read - so I might be wrong
> about them.
>
> Thanks.

First, we must check whether this is related to the italic text styling 
or not.
I prepared an ISO [1] which contains the attached patch: Lior, could you 
please perform same tests you did before and compare differencies found, 
if any ?

thanks

Attilio

[1] https://debian.polito.it/downloads/mini_kaplan_ferreira.iso

ps

Graphics are different as here i have used rootskel-gtk prepared by 
Andre Ferreira.
Index: gtk.c
===================================================================
--- gtk.c	(revisione 44922)
+++ gtk.c	(copia locale)
@@ -1755,10 +1755,10 @@
 
     update_frontend_title (obj, progressbar_title);
     progress_bar_label = ((struct frontend_data*)obj->data)->progress_bar_label;
-    progress_bar_label_string = malloc(strlen(info) + 10 );
-    sprintf(progress_bar_label_string,"<i> %s</i>",info);
-    gtk_label_set_markup(GTK_LABEL(progress_bar_label), progress_bar_label_string);
-    free(progress_bar_label_string);
+//    progress_bar_label_string = malloc(strlen(info) + 10 );
+//    sprintf(progress_bar_label_string,"<i> %s</i>",info);
+    gtk_label_set_text (GTK_LABEL (progress_bar_label), info);
+//    free(progress_bar_label_string);
     gdk_threads_leave();
 
     if (data->button_val == DC_OK || data->button_val == DC_GOBACK)