Bug#1017435: debian-installer: georgian text mode fails to render all characters

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Hello,

Holger Wansing, le mar. 16 août 2022 22:59:34 +0200, a ecrit:
> Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> wrote (Tue, 16 Aug 2022 11:22:30 +0200):
> > openQA just noticed that the rendering of certain characters just changed,
> > highlighting the fact that the rendering was already broken.
> 
> To be more precise here:
> - this only affects the text installer; rendering in graphical installer seems fine;
> - Georgian started to be available for the text installer in debian 10, and some
>   research showed, that this issue is there from that beginning (debian 10).
> 
> Since noone noticed this for years, maybe we can go with a workaround to
> disable Georgian for the text installer (if noone finds the real solution
> for this).

The solution is simply to add the required characters in
debian-installer/build/needed-characters/ka.utf:

https://d-i.debian.org/doc/i18n-guide/ch03s06.html

I'm surprised that this was missed. Was

https://d-i.debian.org/doc/i18n-guide/ch03.html

not followed?

Samuel