On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 07:59:57AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Mohammed Sameer (msameer at foolab dot org): > > Hi, > > > > Just reporting something. > > > > http://people.debian.org/~fjp/d-i/images/daily/gtk-miniiso/mini.iso > > > > The installer has problems with Arabic, The letters aren't joined. > > > This is actually still development code, but thanks for mentioning > it. I've forwarded this to the devel mailing list. > > I unfortunately currently give less time to D-I testing. I remember I > noticed that, visually, there was some problem with the graphical D-I > for Arabic and, I guess, Persian as well. > > > We might need someone with the required skills to join temporarily in > the D-I development team to be sure that these issues are properly > dealt with (bidi+shaping+harakat stuff, I think). > I've subscribed to debian-boot a few hours ago. I wanted to have a more detaled look but I failed to build the installer, I'll try again soon. The problem is that we are using gtk 2.0.9 which is very old, I'm not sure I do remember anything about Arabic problems/font handling but I'll try. Can anyone else help, Please do! Best wishes, -- ---------------- -- Katoob Main Developer, Arabbix Maintainer. GNU/Linux registered user #224950 Proud Egyptian GNU/Linux User Group <www.eglug.org> Admin. Life powered by Debian, Homepage: www.foolab.org -- Don't send me any attachment in Micro$oft (.DOC, .PPT) format please Read http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Preferable attachments: .PDF, .HTML, .TXT Thanx for adding this text to Your signature
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