wrong encoding of man pages

Bug #352744 reported by Florent
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
deborphan (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: deborphan

The French man pages do not display correctly: deborphan, orphaner, editkeep

user@jaunty$ echo $LANG
fr_FR.UTF-8
user@jaunty$ man 1 deborphan

It seems that the UTF-8 file was converted again from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8.

The command that revert to the right encoding:

user@jaunty$ zcat /usr/share/man/fr/man1/deborphan.1.gz | iconv -f UTF-8 -t ISO-8859-1 | man -l -

Same analysis for :
 /usr/share/man/fr/man8/editkeep.8.gz
 /usr/share/man/fr/man8/orphaner.8.gz

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Dependencies:
 libgcc1 1:4.3.3-5ubuntu4
 gcc-4.3-base 4.3.3-5ubuntu4
 findutils 4.4.0-2ubuntu3
 libc6 2.9-4ubuntu4
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal
Package: deborphan 1.7.27
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: deborphan
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

Revision history for this message
j.scott.gwin@gmail.com (j.scott.gwin) wrote :

Thank you for reporting this issue, it helps make Ubuntu better. Confirmed.

Changed in deborphan:
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
CarstenHey (c.hey) wrote :

French man pages in deborphan include a note about how to report translation bugs. The file including this note in encoded in ISO, but the French po files are encoded in UTF-8.

It looks like po4a-translate and po4a-updatepo, which create the man pages whilst building the package, don't like mixed encodings ...

This will probably be fixed in deborphan 1.7.29. If my first guess is correct (I did not check if it is) the note itself should be correctly encoded, unlike the rest of the French man pages.

Thanks for the bug report
Carsten

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package deborphan - 1.7.28ubuntu1

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deborphan (1.7.28ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * Treat -dbgsym packages as -dbg (LP: #533881)
  * Fix encoding for French manpages (LP: #352744)
 -- Laurent Bigonville <email address hidden> Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:08:04 +0100

Changed in deborphan (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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