Robert Grønning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Package: lintian
> Version: 1.23.27

> I'm writing a latin1 encoded manpage that contains amongst ordinary
> characters a special norwegian character "ø" (latin1 character number:
> 248)

> When I run lintian on the .deb with the mentioned manpage, it gives me
> the following:
>   warning: can't find numbered character 248

> My untested theory for this error is that my locale encoding is set to
> UTF-8.  I believe that if the locale encoding is the same as the manpage
> encoding, this warning won't occur.

Is this man page being installed in /usr/share/man/no?  If so, I think
you're right and this is a false positive.  (If it's installed directly in
/usr/share/man, there's a different answer.)

-- 
Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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