Bug#441809: aptitude: UTF-8 encoded man page
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 11:55:05AM +0100, Reuben Thomas wrote: Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.6.1-1 Severity: minor The following manpage in your package appears to be UTF-8 encoded: /usr/share/man/cs/man8/aptitude.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. Things have moved on a bit now. man-db 2.5.0 introduced general support for UTF-8 manual pages, and I'm about to release 2.5.1 which fixes up some of the corner cases so that I'll be ready to recommend that Debian developers migrate to installing manual pages in UTF-8 in general. As such, aptitude's Czech manual page is now just fine. Daniel, I now recommend closing this bug without action. Sorry for the confusion. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#441809: aptitude: UTF-8 encoded man page
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.6.1-1 Severity: minor The following manpage in your package appears to be UTF-8 encoded: /usr/share/man/cs/man8/aptitude.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 aptitude depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.6-6 0.7.6 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.6.1-1+b1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.2.1-4 GCC support library ii libncursesw5 5.6+20070825-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a2.0.17-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++64.2.1-4The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-do none (no description available) ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.1.1-1parse Debian changelogs and output -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
