reassign 483189 man-db 2.5.5-2
retitle 483189 man-db: does not really support UTF-8 manpages
severity 483189 important
clone 483189 -1
reassign -1 docbook-xsl 1.73.2.dfsg.1-5
retitle -1 manpages/docbook.xsl: please add encoding declarations
severity -1 wishlist
thanks
* Daniel Leidert <daniel.leid...@wgdd.de>, 2008-06-15, 20:28:
The file its actually UTF-8-encoded, but man interprets it as if it was
ISO-8859-1.
The file itself looks perfectly here. iconv doesn't seem to be happy
about the UTF-8 character itself and because of this, man output does
not show the character.
After some investigation and reading:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=519209#51
I'm quite sure that the bug has nothing to do with iconv.
What is happening here is as follows:
manconv tries to convert the manpage from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1, which
obviously fails; thus, it assumes the encoding is ISO-8859-1.
To solve the issue:
- man should support UTF-8-encoded manual pages with characters not
covered by legacy encodings.
- docbook stylesheet should be adding encoding declarations to the
generated manpages.
--
Jakub Wilk
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