<div dir="ltr">Hebrew has the same problem as Arabic so I guess RTL would work perfectly and there are Hebrew terminal fonts.<br><br>The solution implemented in the Debian installation is just great but AFAIK is not perfect.<br>
<br>I reported a bug about this issue against failsafe-x in the past.<br><br>Kind regards,<br clear="all"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#990000">Yaron</font><font color="#330000"> Shahrabani</font></span><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px">
<div><font color="#666666"><span style="font-size:x-small"><font color="#FF0000"><</font></span>Hebrew translator<span style="font-size:x-small"><font color="#FF0000">></font></span></font></div></blockquote></div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:55 PM, Khaled Hosny <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:khaledhosny@eglug.org">khaledhosny@eglug.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 01:04:26AM +0900, Nobuto MURATA wrote:<br>
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> Hello Ubuntu Translators,<br>
><br>
> I'd like to ask translators to test whether your locales are affected by<br>
> Bug #573502[1]. This bug is related to "friendly-recovery" which is used<br>
> in order to solve unbootable situation that X setting is broken or disks<br>
> are fully filled. It can be accessed from an entry on bootloader.<br>
><br>
> Currently in some locales like Chinese, Japanese and Korean, the menu<br>
> has unreadable characters. You can see the example screenshot[2]. This<br>
> issue comes from limited fonts which we can use on console.<br>
><br>
> To show all characters properly, friendly-recovery is needed to use<br>
> framebuffer. Implement of the solution would take some time. So we are<br>
> going to make loading translations disable on affected locales as a<br>
> workaround.<br>
><br>
> To do so, we need complete list of affected locales. You can test<br>
> whether your locale is affected along with the steps below. Currently<br>
> zh_*, ja_JP and ko_KR are confirmed as affected, so no need to test on<br>
> that locales.<br>
><br>
> 1. Open gnome-terminal. Then execute the line below.<br>
> $ /usr/share/recovery-mode/recovery-menu<br>
><br>
> 2. You can see menus fully translated. Then press Esc.<br>
><br>
> 3. Go to the console by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F2 and input username and<br>
> password to login.<br>
><br>
> 4. Execute the line below again and see whether unreadable characters exist.<br>
> $ /usr/share/recovery-mode/recovery-menu<br>
><br>
> 5. Then press Esc, and you can go back to the desktop by pressing Alt+F7.<br>
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</div></div>For Arabic (testing ar_EG locale, but should be true for other ar_*<br>
ones), with default console font all the Arabic text is unreadable, but<br>
if change console font to an Arabic capable one (any of<br>
/usr/share/consolefonts/Arabic-* fonts) I get readable Arabic text (with<br>
proper right to left and shaping), so for Arabic a fix would involve<br>
choosing a suitable default console font. IIRC, some previous Ubuntu<br>
release had suitable Arabic font by default, I don't remember which one<br>
as it have been years since I tried Arabic in the console (I'm using<br>
10.04 right now).<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Khaled<br>
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