Bug 121138 - Illegal character in /usr/share/man/en/man2/getrlimit.2.gz
Summary: Illegal character in /usr/share/man/en/man2/getrlimit.2.gz
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: man-pages
Version: 1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Eido Inoue
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-04-17 21:52 UTC by Leonard den Ottolander
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
0 users

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2004-04-19 19:20:26 UTC
Type: ---
Embargoed:

Attachments (Terms of Use)

Description Leonard den Ottolander 2004-04-17 21:52:21 UTC 
man-pages-1.60-4

Illegal character in english translation of man 2 getrlimit. When
using LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1 man aborts with an error:

iconv: illegal input sequence at position 1829.

When running
(LANG=en_US.UTF-8; man getrlimit)
you can see illegal characters in the title bar.

Note that the affected file is /usr/share/man/en/man2/getrlimit.2.gz,
not /usr/share/man/man2/getrlimit.2.gz. These files differ only in one
character (the accented a in "Havard Lygre"), so why not drop the
whole english translation?
Comment 1 Eido Inoue 2004-04-19 19:20:26 UTC 
The current release of nroff & man (in the fc rawhide) contains code
to handle legacy character sets... both in the man page source and for
the target terminals
Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.