Hi. Popt has apparently problems with unicode characters. I tried to include some in the descrip and argDescrip field of the option table, e.g. - either directly "foo“”bar" - or escaped "foo\u201c\u201dbar" and then using the auto help functionallity. popt reacts quite strangely sometimes it justs works and the characters are printed correctly, sometimes it however skips the unicode characters and all between them, but not necessarily for all the unicode characters used ie. "\u201cfoo\u201d bar \u201cbaz\u201d" may become bar “bar” when printed. Cheers, Chris.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 19 development cycle. Changing version to '19'. (As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 19 development cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 19 End Of Life. Thank you.) More information and reason for this action is here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora19
I am very sorry, but I do really not see how I could help here as Fedora is downstream of popt. But http://rpm5.org/community/popt-devel/0268.html is a forward of this request to upstream for discussions there.
Upstream replied to this at http://rpm5.org/community/popt-devel/0280.html - from my point of view, there is nothing left thus I am closing this report. In case you disagree with me, feel free to subscribe popt-devel mailing list at upstream and let us discuss your point directly with upstream.