Bug 20061 - non-ASCII characters break apropos and whatis
Summary: non-ASCII characters break apropos and whatis
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
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Product: Red Hat Powertools
Classification: Retired
Component: lapack
Version: 6.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Trond Eivind Glomsrxd
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Reported: 2000-10-30 20:40 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-10-30 20:40:50 UTC
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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.
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