Bug 20061

Summary:	non-ASCII characters break apropos and whatis
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Powertools	Reporter:	Need Real Name <florin>
Component:	lapack	Assignee:	Trond Eivind Glomsrxd <teg>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.2
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Description Need Real Name 2000-10-30 20:40:48 UTC

Most of the manual pages contained in the two packages blas-man-3.0-4 and
lapack-man-3.0-4,
and installed in /usr/man/manl/ contain non-ASCII characters which
propagate in the whatis index. 
The apropos and wahtis commands are using grep which will consider
/usr/man/whatis a binary file,
so no info will be given about manual pages installed in /usr/man.

If the non-ASCII characters are filtered out from the manual pages,
everything behaves as expected.

Comment 1 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2000-10-31 17:45:01 UTC

This is fixed in Red Hat Linux 7.