On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 07:43:39AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Osamu Aoki <[email protected]> writes: > > > Since this test should work in all environment, I think whoever created > > this test must have chosen LANG=C with reason. I am not even sure if > > en_US.UTF-8 exists in the test environment. > > Lintian guarantees that en_US.UTF-8 exists.
Thanks fo confirming this. (Some code looked like so.) > > Then I also realized there are manpages in many old encodings and they > > need to be tested by this script. Testing for the good UTF-8-ness is > > not the right choice (although I suggested so in the previous report.) > > > So the right thing to do is like other exceptions given in the code. > > > Please apply attached patch to /usr/share/lintian/checks/manpages > > (of course in source file as lintian-2.3.4/checks/manpages) > > My understanding of how man is supposed to work with character encodings > says that we should not need to be doing things like this. I've been > hoping Colin would weigh in on this bug, though, since he knows way more > about what's going on here than I do. The current check code seemed to run on all manpages with different encoding. So using UTF-8 is not soulution either. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
