On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 08:15:57AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Osamu Aoki <os...@debian.org> writes: > > On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 07:43:39AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> My understanding of how man is supposed to work with character > >> encodings says that we should not need to be doing things like this. > >> I've been hoping Colin would weigh in on this bug, though, since he > >> knows way more about what's going on here than I do. > > > The current check code seemed to run on all manpages with different > > encoding. So using UTF-8 is not soulution either. > > man is supposed to transcode man pages in other encodings to UTF-8 if the > locale is UTF-8, isn't it?
My mind is melting ... You are right. Then LANG=en_US.UTF-8 seems to be right solution. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-lint-maint-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100410153120.gb9...@osamu.debian.net