Refining The Default Fonts for Ubuntu

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 06:46:34PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 01:16:10PM -0400, Edward H. Trager wrote:
> > 1. CONSOLE MODE INSTALLER ARABIC OPTION NOT USABLE
> > --------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > The text-mode installer has an option for "Arabic" but the Arabic
> > letters are rendered on the console in left-to-right, unjoined manner.
> >  In other words, it is totally wrong and unusable, since as we all
> > know Arabic is a right-to-left cursive joined script.  Maybe it looks OK in
> > the GUI installer (which did not work on my machine, so I was presented 
> > the text installer), but clearly it is useless for the text installer.
> 
> (We have a GUI installer? Nobody told me. :-))
> 
> Anyway, this seems to have been a mistake in the newt package, which has
> bidirectional text support, but that support was accidentally disabled
> due to a missing build-dependency. I've merged a new version of newt
> from Debian, which fixes that missing build-dependency as well as
> improving Arabic support and adding Persian support.
> 
> Would you mind reviewing one of our daily CD builds in a few days' time,
> when this fix trickles down to them?

I gave Arabic a brief try using this morning's image, and it seems to be
working fine as far as I can tell without understanding the script.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]