Bug 139341

Summary:	Might want to check correct encoding of man-pages?
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Florian La Roche <laroche>
Component:	distribution	Assignee:	Jindrich Novy <jnovy>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	rawhide	CC:	eng-i18n-bugs, mitr, notting, pknirsch, rvokal
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2004-12-03 22:41:36 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	140173, 140195, 140318, 140324, 140512, 140518, 140707, 140945, 140946
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Description Florian La Roche 2004-11-15 13:59:14 UTC

Description of problem:


/usr/share/man> for x in `find -name *gz`; do zcat $x | if ! test -z
"`iconv 2>&1 >/dev/null`"; then echo $x; fi  done
./man1/ptx.1.gz
./man1/perlcn.1.gz
./man1/perlebcdic.1.gz
./man1/perlhack.1.gz
./man1/perlhist.1.gz
./man1/perljp.1.gz
./man1/perlko.1.gz
./man1/perlothrtut.1.gz
./man1/perlthrtut.1.gz
./man1/perltw.1.gz
./man1/fc-cache.1.gz
./man1/fc-list.1.gz
./man1/grolbp.1.gz
./man1/gs-pcl3.1.gz
./man1/pcl3opts.1.gz
./man1/ntpdate.1.gz
./man1/ntpq.1.gz
./man1/tickadj.1.gz
./man1/cdrecord.1.gz
./man1/mkromdic.1.gz
./man1/ppmshadow.1.gz
./man1/flipdiff.1.gz
./man1/unwrapdiff.1.gz
./man1/dvdrecord.1.gz
./man3/Unicode::Collate.3pm.gz
./man5/sane-agfafocus.5.gz
./man5/sane-avision.5.gz
./man5/sane-coolscan2.5.gz
./man5/sane-umax_pp.5.gz
./man7/groff_mm.7.gz
./man7/groff_mmse.7.gz
./man8/netdump-server.8.gz


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Comment 1 Eido Inoue 2004-11-22 08:28:58 UTC

It should be noted that recent versions of man should be able to
handle non-UTF-8 man-pages (for the sake of 3rd party cross-distro
rpms)... although man assumes that each language is either UTF-8 or
exactly one other predetermined encoding (example: Russian is KOI8-R
if it's not UTF-8). The "other" encoding is what I believed to be the
"most popular" encoding in Linux for that language's man pages.

Where this runs into trouble is for languages with multiple encodings;
e.g. French (ISO-8859-1 and ISO-8859-15), Japanese (EUC-JP,
ISO-2022-JP, and (rarely) Shift-JIS). These two languages deserve
special attention with respect to multiple charsets/encodings.

Comment 2 Jindrich Novy 2004-11-22 08:52:32 UTC

Adrian, because of the reason you presented I convert all the man
pages in packages where I found bad encoded man to UTF-8. Do you have
any objections against that?

Florian, we're working together with mitr to convert all the pages to
the correct enoding. On my fresh FC3 installation I've found slighly
more that 100 man pages in wrong encoding.

Comment 3 Eido Inoue 2004-11-22 09:05:03 UTC

Comment 2: absolutely no objections-- thanks Jindrich. The intention
for the non-UTF-8 support is for supporting LEGACY/old man-pages from
3rd party folks playing catch up.

(It will print a warning to stderr when man encounters a non-UTF-8 pages)

Comment 4 Miloslav Trmač 2004-12-03 22:41:36 UTC

All packages except the blockers of this bug have been fixed.