Hello Maintainers, It seems there is a common problem while setting up the correct UNICODE locale in systems. As the posster in the attached message has written, he has setup his locale to "zh_CN.utf8" which is wrong, but as he has written too, the output of "locale -a" show it.
I have many customers with the same problem... I think, there should be a global solution for this, since patching man-db is worthless. Please discuse this problem and let me stay in the MFT. Thanks, Greetings and nice Day Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator Tamay Dogan Network Debian GNU/Linux Consultant ----- Forwarded message from LI Daobing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:51:44 +0800 From: LI Daobing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Bug#467249: man-db: over sensitive on the spell of locale X-PTS-Package: man-db X-Debian-PR-Package: man-db Package: man-db Version: 2.5.1-2 Severity: important when set locale to zh_CN.UTF-8, I can view a chinese manpage with "man -l ls.zh_CN.1", but when set locale to zh_CN.utf8, I got many rubbish charaters on the screen. and the information generated by "locale -a" is zh_CN.utf8, so many users set locale to utf8 instead of UTF-8. the ls.zh_CN.1 in attchment. please fix it, thanks. or you can reproduce this bug with following commands. Thanks. $ LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8 man --warnings -l ls.zh_CN.1 > /dev/null $ LANG=zh_CN.utf8 man --warnings -l ls.zh_CN.1 > /dev/null <standard input>:9: warning: can't find special character `u013F' <standard input>:9: warning: can't find special character `u011A' <standard input>:9: warning: can't find special character `u021D' <standard input>:11: warning: can't find special character `u0321' <standard input>:11: warning: can't find special character `u04AA' <standard input>:12: warning: can't find special character `u0461' // snip <snip> ----- End forwarded message --------------------------------------- -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ ##################### Debian GNU/Linux Consultant ##################### Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 +49/177/9351947 50, rue de Soultz MSN LinuxMichi +33/6/61925193 67100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com)
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