Your message dated Sun, 02 Apr 2017 11:39:18 +0200
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and subject line Re: Is it OK to have UTF8 manpages nowadays?
has caused the Debian Bug report #442066,
regarding po4a: [man] option to recode output with *roff sequences
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Package: debsums
Version: 2.0.32
Severity: minor
The following manpages in your package appear to be UTF-8 encoded:
/usr/share/man/sv/man1/debsums.1.gz
/usr/share/man/sv/man8/debsums_gen.8.gz
According to Colin Watson, "With some exceptions for Far Eastern
languages, manual pages should not at present be encoded using UTF-8.
As such, it's reasonable to file bugs against packages attempting to
use UTF-8 where it is not yet supported."
Hence I'm filing this bug. The solution for now seems to be to encode
the pages as 7-bit ASCII, using the appropriate *roff sequences to
produce accented characters.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages debsums depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.14 Debian configuration management sy
ii perl 5.8.8-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
debsums recommends no packages.
-- debconf information excluded
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Woops, I put the wrong copy of the cloned bug as CC. So closing the right one
this time. Thanks Colin for the confirmation, and sorry for the delay.
Bye, Mt
Le 1 avril 2017 00:10:27 GMT+02:00, Colin Watson <[email protected]> a écrit :
>On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 11:44:12PM +0200, Martin Quinson wrote:
>> I come to you about #441835. 7 years ago, some people reported that
>> the UTF8-encoded manpages generated by po4a were breaking things, and
>> that we should encode them in anything else, or in ascii using *roff
>> sequences.
>>
>> I guess that man now supports UTF8 and that we can now close the bug?
>
>Yes, this has worked since man-db 2.5.0 in October 2007, and you can
>just go ahead and use UTF-8 across the board. Policy 12.1 has agreed
>with this since debian-policy 3.8.3.0 in August 2009.
>
>Cheers,
>
>--
>Colin Watson
>[[email protected]]
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