Bug 103931
| Summary: | man iso_8859_1 yields "can't find special character" warnings | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Loren J. Gibson <ljgibson> |
| Component: | man | Assignee: | Eido Inoue <havill> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Ben Levenson <benl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | ||
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| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2003-10-09 19:58:18 UTC | Type: | --- |
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the ISO-8859-1 page should not belong in the C locale... the C locale man pages need to be ASCII only for the sake of language fallback. The current version of man-pages in rawhide reduces the C version to ascii and keeps the original in the "en" locale, which can display ISO-8859-1 characters. |
Description of problem: Issuing the command "man iso_8859_1" (similarly for the other iso_8859_x man pages) results in a large volume of warnings printed to stderr, in two forms: <standard input>:109: warning: can't find numbered character 28 <standard input>:113: warning: can't find special character `u011C' The latter of the two message appear in far greater numbers, approx. 119 lines of these warnings are generated. The numbers between the first two colons and the last number differ in each warning. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): man version 1.5k How reproducible: Always reproducible. Steps to Reproduce: 1. man iso_8859_1 2. Optionally: Do the command man iso_8859_1 2>manwarnings.txt to be able to review the warnings more thoroughly later. 3. Actual results: Large number of warnings scroll down the display (unless redirected to a file). Also, the display of the man page is corrupted by some missing characters and garbled display in the bottom 1/4 or so of the man page. Expected results: A properly formatted man page with all characters appearing as designed, with no warning messages printed to stderr. Additional info: This behavior is observed at a console prompt without X running and also in xterm and gnome-terminal. Experiments with changing the language by modifying the line in /etc/sysconfig/i18n to (for example) LANG="C" (and rebooting) or by issuing commands like "env LANG=C man iso_8859_1" can be seen to affect the outcome, but the man pages are still garbled in some way in all cases tested (varying the language as C, en_US, latin1, etc.), even if the special character warnings are silenced.