Package: man-db
Version: 2.5.0-4
Severity: minor
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Hi
currently man detects language (and thus encoding used by troff) by
looking at path it got. This is reason why following commands behave
differently:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/man/cs$ man ./man5/passwd.5.gz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/man/cs$ man `pwd`/man5/passwd.5.gz
First one fails to display man page, while the second one works. If full
absolute path would be used for detection, it would catch this
situation.
However it might be even better to try to detect language by looking at
content - many non English man pages set hyphenation language by .hla
command. Taking this value as a language could also work (but I don't
have deep knowledge about man pages, so maybe I'm completely wrong).
- --
Michal Čihař | http://cihar.com | http://blog.cihar.com
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Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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ii libc6 2.7-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-3 GNU dbm database routines (runtime
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-8 compression library - runtime
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