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 <lidaobing@gmail.com> -----
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:51:44 +0800
From: LI Daobing <lidaobing@gmail.com>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
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'
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