Comment 9 for bug 8254

Message-Id: <1095579917.1339.1.camel@localhost>
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 11:45:17 +0400
From: Mohammed Elzubeir <email address hidden>
To: Documentation and Translation <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: [URGENT] Debian Installer: Bug#272136: countrychooser: db_go
 fails when choosing Arabic as language

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On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 11:27, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Salam,
>=20
> We have some very tricky problems with the Debian Installer and Arabic
> translations.
>=20
> I a few cases, Arabic causes D-I parts to crash. This is described in
> the following bug reports:
>=20
> http://bugs.debian.org/272136
> http://bugs.debian.org/256405
>=20
> In both cases, the cause seems to be a missing character in the font
> we use.
>=20

Looks like the problem is coming from diacritics (harakat). I don't see
stand-alone harakat in your first attachment. Also, the only thing that
is common between the country names mentioned and the po file you have
attached, it seems, is that they include the 'shadda' diacritic.

Others, feel free to correct me if I am wrong.

Regards,
Mohammed Elzubeir

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