Spanish manpages with wrong encoding
Bug #134235 reported by
Benjamín Valero Espinosa
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| manpages-es (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Undecided
|
Colin Watson | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: manpages-es
The man pages provided by the package 'manpages-es' are not well encoded, showing strange characters when accentuated characters should appear. This does not happen with the man pages provided by the package 'manpages-
I am using UTF-8 as default encoding. I have looked into the source of thouse packages and found that the pages of the first one are encoded with UTF-8 and the pages of the second one are encoded with ISO-8859-15, so perhaps here lives the cause of the problem.
Revision history for this message
| Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in manpages-es: | |
| assignee: | nobody → kamion |
| status: | New → Fix Released |
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This is now fixed in Hardy due to changes in man-db to support UTF-8 manual pages. (For complete support, changes in groff are still needed, but what we have now should be good enough for most of the pages in manpages-es.)