Call for friendly-recovery testing

[Yaron Shahrabani]

Hebrew has the same problem as Arabic so I guess RTL would work perfectly
and there are Hebrew terminal fonts.

The solution implemented in the Debian installation is just great but AFAIK
is not perfect.

I reported a bug about this issue against failsafe-x in the past.

Kind regards,
Yaron Shahrabani

<Hebrew translator>




On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:55 PM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org>wrote:

> 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
>
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