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More progress about the "Arabic crash" in Debian Installer
- To: doc at arabeyes dot org
- Subject: More progress about the "Arabic crash" in Debian Installer
- From: Christian Perrier <bubulle at debian dot org>
- Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 07:40:13 +0200
- Cc: eugen at univ dot kiev dot ua, 272136 at bugs dot debian dot org
- User-agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040818i
After some investigation, Eugeniy Meshcheryakov narrowed the problem
of Debian Installer crashing to what could be a bug in whiptail indeed
(whiptail is the backend used by Debian Installer for building menus).
The attached script segfaults while trying to display a menu
containing some Arabic phrase. No idea where Eugeniy found these two
words and how he managed to narrow stuff to them, but the problem is
reproducible...
What is so special in these words ? If I'm correct, there is a shadda
in them (at least this is what I find in looking in an Unicode table :
U0651=="Arabic shadda") but trying with it alone did not trigger the
crash.
/me, damn puzzled....
(please keep the CC list in your answers)
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