On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 08:59:22PM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 12:41:58PM +0100, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> >The following manpages in your package appear to be UTF-8 encoded:
> >
> >/usr/share/man/sv/man1/debsums.1.gz
> >/usr/share/man/sv/man8/debsums_gen.8.gz
> >
> >According to Colin Watson, "With some exceptions for Far Eastern
> >languages, manual pages should not at present be encoded using UTF-8.
> >As such, it's reasonable to file bugs against packages attempting to
> >use UTF-8 where it is not yet supported."
> >
> >Hence I'm filing this bug. The solution for now seems to be to encode
> >the pages as 7-bit ASCII, using the appropriate *roff sequences to
> >produce accented characters.
Actually ISO-8859-1 is just fine right now, at least for Swedish.
> debsums uses po4a to generate that manual page using sv.po which the
> translator has chosen to encode in utf8.
>
> I seem to recall hearing that utf8 is the preferred encoding for po
> files where possible, and in any case using utf8 is certainly much more
> easier and more readable than *roff escapes like \('e ...
>
> As such, it would seem preferable to get po4a to do the transliteration
> from utf8 to the appropriate escapes.
At this point, perhaps it would be better to wait for UTF-8 manual page
support, which should be coming soon. See recent discussion on
debian-policy and debian-mentors.
(Sorry for the rapid change of tune, but things have been going quite
quickly here recently.)
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