man-db 2.5.2
This is a minor bug-fix release, mainly to deal with various special cases of localisation. It also fixes the 'man -H' option, broken in man-db 2.5.1.
Polish translations of man-db's own manual pages have been added, as the first user of the new po4a-based translation structure.
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Fixes:
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o 'man -H' (without a browser argument) was completely broken in
2.5.1 and is now fixed.
o man no longer breaks in Japanese locales when using less as a
pager.
Improvements:
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o The --encoding option to man can now take a true character
encoding rather than a *roff device; the latter was an unreliable,
inflexible, and awkward way to select an output encoding. The old
semantics are still supported for backward compatibility.
o Whatis parsing stops at .ie or .if conditionals.
o CJK locale specifications where the codeset component is
equivalent to but not stringwise-
zh_CN.utf8) are handled better.
o man(1)'s OPTIONS section is ordered more comprehensibly.
o apropos, lexgrog, man, mandb, and whatis ignore encoding
conversion errors for the last possible encoding of the source
page. This helps, for example, with pages including misencoded
non-ASCII names of authors; it usually seems better to allow these
pages to pass with small errors than to break them entirely.
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