Ubuntu Installer language selector for Persian is horribly displayed

[Ali Mirjamali]

After booting Ubuntu Desktop installer, if you press F2 to select another language for the installer, the text for Persian language is displayed entirely wrong (see the attached screenshot). This is most probably since the bootloader (maybe ISOLINUX?) could not show bidi-rtl-text properly. Other bidi-rtl languages avoided this issue simply by showing the language name in Latin alphabet at this stage (e.g. Arabic).

Persian speaking users would either miss that option, or will avoid selecting it since they assume that the entire Persian translations would be broken. I suggest that string to be changed to `Persian` or `Farsi` for the time.

[Danial Behzadi (dani.behzi)]

I can not do much for the Language name in list. But I recently fixed Persian texts in options (After selecting فارسی). I don't know if it has been fixed to downstream yet or not.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Neither plymouth nor ubiquity are involved in the F2 display of language names. Reassigning to gfxboot-theme-ubuntu.

Note that in groovy and beyond, we also no longer use isolinux / gfxboot; so this is a non-issue there.

[s.sajad (ssmns)]

in 'gfxboot-theme-ubuntu/langnames.inc' file just replace "فارسی"to "Farsi"

*old*: [ "fa" "fa_IR" "فارسی" ]

*new*: [ "fa" "fa_IR" "Farsi(Persian)" ]

[Danial Behzadi (dani.behzi)]

Actually it should be:

[ "fa" "fa_IR" "ﯽﺳﺭﺎﻓ" ]

[Ali Mirjamali (alimirjamali)]

I doubt that "ﯽﺳﺭﺎﻓ" would be rendered properly.