Description of problem: During the transition to UTF-8 some manual pages have been damaged. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): man-pages-2.39-5 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Switch to an English locale (I used en_GB.UTF-8) 2. from a shell type e.g. exactly 'man iso_8859-15' (NB underscore and dash) 3. Examine the EURO SIGN Actual results: The obscure universal currency symbol ¤ is shown Expected results: The Euro currency symbol € should be shown Additional info: These manual pages were casualties of an otherwise mostly successful battle to get rid of encoding problems in manual pages. /usr/share/man/en/man7/iso_8859-2.7.gz /usr/share/man/en/man7/iso_8859-7.7.gz /usr/share/man/en/man7/iso_8859-9.7.gz /usr/share/man/en/man7/iso_8859-15.7.gz /usr/share/man/en/man7/iso_8859-16.7.gz Each of these pages was converted to UTF-8 but with the assumption that their original character set was ISO-8859-1 (or maybe Windows 1252). In fact they were each in their respective native encoding. A tool like 'iconv' can fix this, firstly undo the conversion to UTF-8, then redo it but choosing the correct source encoding e.g. iconv -f UTF-8 -t ISO-8859-1 < iso_8859-9.7 > tmpfile iconv -t UTF-8 -f ISO-8859-9 < tmpfile > iso_8859-9.7 Meanwhile the ASCII versions of these pages of course don't do a very good job of illustrating characters which explicitly aren't in ASCII. Since we can't illustrate them properly we should just remove this column, there is a text description of each character included so it's still useful as pure ASCII.
Fixed in man-peges-2.43-6.fc7 and man-pages-2_39-7_fc6.