Comment 30 for bug 8253

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 13:51:29 -0500
From: Steve Langasek <email address hidden>
To: Joey Hess <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#256405: crash displaying main menu in arabic

On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 01:09:01PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Yes, if the absence of glyphs can cause crashes, the most likely source
> > of trouble is that some sequence in the iso-scan main menu string is
> > shaped to a code point that's missing from
> > installer/build/needed-characters/ar. This *should* have been a
> > complete list of all characters generated by the shaping code, but it's
> > not impossible that I missed one.

> How would I go about tracking this down? Bear in mind that I know beans about
> this stuff.

Trivially, figure out which menu items appear in the iso-scan main menu
that don't appear in the main menu for other images; then remove the
Arabic translations for those menu items, rebuild, and test to confirm
whether the crash still occurs.

If it doesn't crash, binary searching will pinpoint the problematic
string.

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Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer