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

[Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>]

Hi,

Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> wrote (Sun, 1 Jan 2023 20:14:36 +0100):
> 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?

Apparently not :-(

So, we need a Georgian translator, providing us a file with all non-ascii 
characters needed for the Georgian language.

Can anyone help us, please?


Thanks

Holger




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