diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 8d7c20b..2d0f09c 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 gfxboot-theme-ubuntu (0.4.3) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
 
   * Revert incorrect Maintainer change.
+  * Override language names for Arabic, Bengali, Hindi, and Nepali to use
+    the English names, as we don't have working Arabic or Indic rendering in
+    gfxboot (thanks, Arne Goetje).
 
  -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>  Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:34:19 +0100
 
diff --git a/langnames.inc b/langnames.inc
index cae12bc..66ac0fe 100644
--- a/langnames.inc
+++ b/langnames.inc
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 /lang.defaultnames [
-  [ "ar" "ar_EG" "عربي" ]
+  [ "ar" "ar_EG" "Arabic" ]
   [ "be" "be_BY" "Беларуская" ]
   [ "bg" "bg_BG" "Български" ]
-  [ "bn" "bn_BD" "বাংলা" ]
+  [ "bn" "bn_BD" "Bengali" ]
   [ "bs" "bs_BA" "Bosanski" ]
   [ "ca" "ca_ES" "Català" ]
   [ "cs" "cs_CZ" "Čeština" ]
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
   [ "gl" "gl_ES" "Galego" ]
   [ "gu" "gu_IN" "Gujarati" ]
   [ "he" "he_IL" "עברית" ]
-  [ "hi" "hi_IN" "हिन्दी" ]
+  [ "hi" "hi_IN" "Hindi" ]
   [ "hr" "hr_HR" "Hrvatski" ]
   [ "hu" "hu_HU" "Magyarul" ]
   [ "id" "id_ID" "Bahasa Indonesia" ]
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
   [ "mk" "mk_MK" "Македонски" ]
   [ "ml" "ml_IN" "Malayalam" ]
   [ "nb" "nb_NO" "Norsk bokmål" ]
-  [ "ne" "ne_NP" "नेपाली" ]
+  [ "ne" "ne_NP" "Nepali" ]
   [ "nl" "nl_NL" "Nederlands" ]
   [ "nn" "nn_NO" "Norsk nynorsk" ]
   [ "pa" "pa_IN" "Punjabi (Gurmukhi)" ]
diff --git a/scrape-localechooser b/scrape-localechooser
index 26a9e30..d50978c 100755
--- a/scrape-localechooser
+++ b/scrape-localechooser
@@ -17,12 +17,16 @@ my %langcode_override = (
 );
 
 # The real localised names for these languages use characters not present in
-# our font.
+# our font, or not rendered correctly for some other reason.
 my @langname_notranslate = (
+    'Arabic',
+    'Bengali',
     'Gujarati',
+    'Hindi',
     'Khmer',
-    'Punjabi (Gurmukhi)',
     'Malayalam',
+    'Nepali',
+    'Punjabi (Gurmukhi)',
     'Tamil',
 );
 my %langname_notranslate = map { $_ => 1 } @langname_notranslate;