Re: D-I Arabic and Debian Installation

[Christian Perrier <bubulle at debian dot org>]

Quoting Ossama Khayat (okhayat at yahoo dot com):
> Salam,
> When using Arabic to install debian with the latest d-i build, and when the
> installation is finished, most dialogs in console won't be readable. Is this
> because of fonts or encoding or what?

On the installed system?

This is a known issue which does not only happen for Arabic, but for
CJK languages as well (Chinese/Japanese/Korean).

There is not console program that can be laounched by init and is able
to display these languages. Cyrillic users have console-cyrillic but
there's nothing for CJK...and maybe Arabic as well (or would bicon
do the trick?)

base-config (the thing you run after the reboot) runs under jfbterm
which explains why you can see Arabic.....However, jfbterm is closed
after base-config run and then the installmed system runs with a
"normal" console program.

> What ever it is, this will create a problem for Arabic users who will actually
> use Arabic installation when Sarge is released.
> One solutions (i guess) would be by just setting language envoronment variables
> to the default if possible, or maybe include a console font or proper encoding.
> 

This is possible (resetting LANG=C after base-config is done).