Bug#610505: installation-reports: Installation with Gnome displays Telugu menus as Unicode boxes

[Arjuna Rao Chavala <arjunaraoc@googlemail.com>]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Christian PERRIER <bubulle@debian.org> wrote:

Quoting Arjuna Rao Chavala (arjunaraoc@googlemail.com):
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Kartik Mistry <kartik.mistry@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala
> > <arjunaraoc@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > Installation without Gnome successful. when Gnome is installed, the
> > machine
> > > displays Telugu menus as Unicode char boxes
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Have you selected Telugu task? It should install ttf-telugu-fonts
> > which should solve your problem.
> >
> > In the graphical install, first Telugu is selected and the rest of the
> installation is continued including Gnome. I thought Tasksel will handle the
> required steps.

At least it should, given that the telugu-desktop task should install
ttf-telugu-fonts....ad I suppose that this package provides fonts that
handle the Telugu script.

Is this package installed at the end of installation ("dpkg -s
ttf-telugu-fonts" will tell you)?

Thanks Christian for the pointers.

Instead of selecting gnome desktop, I opted for installing system utilities. Then I checked the availability for telugu fonts and found it was installed.
I installed gnome-core, xorg and then gdm and found no issue with login screen in Telugu.

The earlier attempt where telugu font display as unicode characters issue was done through a Virtual OS software. May be the problem was related to something else. Anyway I will try a Live debian CD  soon to check whether the problem exists for installation on physical disks.

Cheers
Arjun