Call for friendly-recovery testing

[Khaled Hosny]

On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 01:04:26AM +0900, Nobuto MURATA wrote:
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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.

For Arabic (testing ar_EG locale, but should be true for other ar_*
ones), with default console font all the Arabic text is unreadable, but
if change console font to an Arabic capable one (any of
/usr/share/consolefonts/Arabic-* fonts) I get readable Arabic text (with
proper right to left and shaping), so for Arabic a fix would involve
choosing a suitable default console font. IIRC, some previous Ubuntu
release had suitable Arabic font by default, I don't remember which one
as it have been years since I tried Arabic in the console (I'm using
10.04 right now).

Regards,
 Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
 Egyptian