From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0 Description of problem: Yelp doesn't display non-english manpages. It tries to, but displays only ugly characters. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yelp-2.16.0-9.fc6.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install man-pages-ru (should work with any other localized non-latin man pages package) 2. Run yelp in corresponding locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8 yelp 3. Type man:malloc in "Поиск" (search) input field. Actual Results: Very ugly manpage is displayed. See attached screenshot for details. Expected Results: Normal localized manpage. Additional info: Looking at the output, it's quite easy to guess what happens. The manpage, /usr/share/man/ru/man3/malloc.3.gz is UTF-8-encoded. When parsing it, yelp gets correct utf-8 input. However, for some reason it assumes that input from manpage filter is in iso8859-1 (very wrong..). So it converts it from iso8859-1 to utf-8 (output charset) and that's where that garbage comes from. To test this, try gunzip < /usr/share/man/ru/man3/malloc.3.gz | man2html - | iconv -fiso8859-1 -tutf-8 in terminal and the output is exactly the same as what yelp is trying to display. Without iconv, output is correct.
Created attachment 140611 [details] Example garbage output from man:malloc
Is this problem still present in Fedora 8 Test 2 or later?
I don't think I'll be able to test it right now. Can anyone who has F8T2 installed check this? There are really no requirements aside from having yelp and man-pages-ru installed..
Moving this upstream. Please see [1] for further updates. [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=473040