Call for friendly-recovery testing

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Þann lau 19.feb 2011 16:04, skrifaði Nobuto MURATA:
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> Hello Ubuntu Translators,
>
> I'd like to ask translators to test whether your locales are affected by
> Bug #573502[1]. This bug is related to "friendly-recovery" which is used
> in order to solve unbootable situation that X setting is broken or disks
> are fully filled. It can be accessed from an entry on bootloader.
>
> Currently in some locales like Chinese, Japanese and Korean, the menu
> has unreadable characters. You can see the example screenshot[2]. This
> issue comes from limited fonts which we can use on console.
>
> To show all characters properly, friendly-recovery is needed to use
> framebuffer. Implement of the solution would take some time. So we are
> going to make loading translations disable on affected locales as a
> workaround.
>
> To do so, we need complete list of affected locales. You can test
> whether your locale is affected along with the steps below. Currently
> zh_*, ja_JP and ko_KR are confirmed as affected, so no need to test on
> that locales.
>
> 1. Open gnome-terminal. Then execute the line below.
>      $ /usr/share/recovery-mode/recovery-menu
>
> 2. You can see menus fully translated. Then press Esc.
>
> 3. Go to the console by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F2 and input username and
> password to login.
>
> 4. Execute the line below again and see whether unreadable characters exist.
>      $ /usr/share/recovery-mode/recovery-menu
>
> 5. Then press Esc, and you can go back to the desktop by pressing Alt+F7.
>
>
> Please feedback your result by replying to this e-mail like below.
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Locale: (output of locale command)
> Affected: YES/NO
> Percentage: (percentage of unreadable characters)
>
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/573502
> [2]
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/47192384/Ubuntu%2010.04%20LTS%20Lucid%20Lynx%20%28Installed%29%20%5B%E5%AE%9F%E8%A1%8C%E4%B8%AD%5D%20-%20VirtualBox%20OSE_001.png
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> Nobuto MURATA / 村田信人
>

OK for Icelandic

LANG=is_IS.utf8
Affected: NO
Percentage: 0%

Tested on 10.04, 10.10 and LinuxMint 10

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