Bug 87768 – 'man fontconfig' gives iconv error

Bug 87768 - 'man fontconfig' gives iconv error

Summary:	'man fontconfig' gives iconv error

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	man (Show other bugs)
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Version:	9
Hardware:	i686 Linux

Priority	medium Severity low
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Assigned To:	Eido Inoue
QA Contact:	Ben Levenson
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Reported:	2003-04-02 03:48 EST by Mark van Rossum
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:52 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Fixed In Version:	1.58-1
Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2003-08-08 12:32:20 EDT
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Description Mark van Rossum 2003-04-02 03:48:42 EST

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003

Description of problem:
When I type 'man fontconfig'
I get
Iconv: illegal input sequence at position 214
This happens for some man pages, not for others (man ls is fine)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rh 9.0

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.see above
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Additional info:

Iconv incomplete ?

Comment 1 Mark van Rossum 2003-04-02 09:17:31 EST

This bug does not seem to involve an unsupported IDE chipset,
as hdparm -t /dev/hda 
returns normal values.

Quick fix: 
Go back to older kernel
rpm -ivh --oldpackage kernel-2.4.18-27.8.0.i686.rpm

Comment 2 Mark van Rossum 2003-04-02 09:20:42 EST

Sorry previous additional comment was meant for other bug.
Please ignore.

Comment 3 Christopher Wong 2003-04-22 11:34:52 EDT

Oddly enough, running "man:fontconfig" in KDE -- using Konqueror as man page 
viewer -- displays the fontconfig manpage just fine.

Comment 4 Owen Taylor 2003-06-10 18:08:27 EDT

fontconfig man page is gone as of fontconfig-2.2.1. Reassigning to 
man since it looks like 'fontconfig' was just an example of the
problem.

Comment 5 Eido Inoue 2003-08-08 12:32:20 EDT

man-pages version 1.58-1 seems to have fixed the iconv problems that have been
reported.

Comment 6 Łukasz Trąbiński 2003-10-25 12:03:08 EDT

[lukasz@lt lukasz]$ rpm -q man
man-1.5k-6

When we try type `man 2 umask`
iconv: illegal input sequence at position 1518

man from redhat/rawhide man-1.5k-12 is OK.

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