Bug 728587 - Incorrect display of multibyte characters in .Pa paragraphs of a manpage
Summary: Incorrect display of multibyte characters in .Pa paragraphs of a manpage
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: man
Version: 15
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Orphan Owner
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-08-05 17:39 UTC by Laurent GAUTROT
Modified: 2012-08-07 16:13 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-08-07 16:13:16 UTC
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Test manual page containing some multibytes in a .Pa (401 bytes, application/x-troff-man)
2011-08-05 17:39 UTC, Laurent GAUTROT
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Description Laurent GAUTROT 2011-08-05 17:39:23 UTC
Created attachment 516930 [details]
Test manual page containing some multibytes in a .Pa

Description of problem:

In a manual page containing multibyte characters after a ".Pa" markup, the character won't be displayed correctly.

Please note that in the same manpage, other multibyte characters are correctly displayed.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

% man -V
man 2.5.9

How reproducible:

Always.

  
Steps to Reproduce:

1. write a manpage (for example "somefile.1") containing a ".Pa" markup with some multibyte characters
2. display the file with: man ./somefile.1

Actual results:

Multibyte is not correctly displayed

Expected results:

Multibyte is correctly displayed

Additional info:

Below is a test manpage containing multibyte characters. A file is also provided as attachment.

8<--
.Dd $Mdocdate: August 31 2010 $
.Dt SOMEFILE
.Sh TITRE
Ceci est un contenu avec des caractères multibytes. Normalement, ce texte est affiché correctement, notamment les caractères accentués.

.Pa Comment ça va ?

.Pa Pas mal, et vous-même ?

Et sinon, sans le formatage :

Comment ça va ?
Pas mal, et vous-même ?

(The same without format)

.Sh TITRE AVEC CARACTÈRES ACCENTUÉS : ÇA MARCHE !
8<--

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