Bug#1017435: debian-installer: georgian text mode fails to render all characters
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Hi,
Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> wrote (Fri, 6 Jan 2023 16:20:38 +0100):
> Roland Clobus, le ven. 06 janv. 2023 13:38:34 +0100, a ecrit:
> > On 01/01/2023 20:49, Holger Wansing wrote:
> > > 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.
> > ...
> > > > The solution is simply to add the required characters in
> > > > debian-installer/build/needed-characters/ka.utf:
> >
> > > 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?
> >
> > With the attached script you can generate a list of all characters that are
> > used in the translations. That can be used to determine the minimal set of
> > required characters.
Roland: thanks for this tool. It may be useful at some point, however in
this case I chose a different approach.
> We already do that in the debian installer, but that is not enough to be
> reasonably sure that this covers all questions that might happen during
> installation, since questions could be asked by any udeb. That's why we
> rather request for a an explicit file from actual translators.
I have now generated such file from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian_language
Tests have proven to fix the problem.
Holger
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