subiquity

console font does not support hebrew

Bug #1765374 reported by Michael Hudson-Doyle
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subiquity
Triaged
Medium
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Bug Description

The current subiquity snap contains a hebrew translation. But it does not render even close to correctly on a vt, clearly the font is missing almost all the characters required. I don't know how to fix this, which probably means we don't have time to fix it before GA and I guess we should (sadly) disable this translation for now.

Tags: rtl
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Michael Hudson-Doyle (mwhudson) wrote :

I think to make this work we'd need to switch to running in fbterm, which would be possible but doesn't seem very likely to happen in the near term.

Changed in subiquity:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
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Yaron (sh-yaron) wrote :

Very sad indeed.

Makes me wonder, how does the desktop Ubiquity setup works? It can display Hebrew.

tags: added: rtl
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Michael Hudson-Doyle (mwhudson) wrote :

Well the desktop installer runs in a graphical environment and so can display all kinds of glyph.

There has been some progress on this lately: the next release will show more languages if you SSH into the installer live session.

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Yaron (sh-yaron) wrote :

That's not what I meant, I meant the CLI Desktop installer (if there's still such a thing), I haven't tried it in several years but it did work with Hebrew due to some work done on the Debian Installer which fully supports Hebrew in CLI (I'm guessing with some sort of FriBiDi implementation and the correct fonts).

I can try and ask the guys who were involved back then and see what they remember from this process, BTW I'm also maintaining the Debian Installer Hebrew translation and it certainly works with Hebrew so it's definitely doable yet might be a bit complex.

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