Bug 72592

Summary: man and internationalization
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Michal Jaegermann <michal>
Component: manAssignee: Eido Inoue <havill>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description Michal Jaegermann 2002-08-25 22:02:35 UTC
Description of Problem:

After installing packages 'man-pages-pl' and 'man-pages-ru'  I tried few
experiments. With pages which actually exist in a given language version
and using commands like

( env LANG=pl_PL man sort )
( env LANG=ru_RU man cp )

I got results which ranged between mangled and ridiculously unreadable.
OTOH correcting that to:

( env LANG=pl_PL man sort | iconv -f latin2  | less -isr)
( env LANG=ru_RU man cp | iconv -f koi8  | less -isr)

I got on a console what was actually expected.  Does this has anything to
do with options to nroff (see #72598)?

Curiously enough '( env LANG=pl_PL man sort | iconv -f latin2  | less -isr)'
displays correctly also in a gnome-terminal window where without 'iconv'
an output is garbled in not a very funny way.  No such luck there with Russian
version which is beyond anything even remotely readable even when "Russian"
session is started.  I guess that the later is caused by fonts which miss
pieces in a required encoding but current way of doing things makes this
information unavailable and a setup extremely confusing.

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2003-02-06 10:41:04 UTC
Please re-test the current rawhide versions of groff and less, in which several
bugs in this area have been fixed.

Comment 2 Jay Turner 2003-02-07 13:25:00 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 71130 ***

Comment 3 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:49:30 UTC
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.