manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man1/picprog.1.gz

[Jan Wagemakers <janw@easynet.be>]

Hello,

I have build a deb-package for picprog 1.8[*]. However, when I run lintian,
I get this error:

 |  pts/3  jan ~/deb$ lintian picprog_1.8-1_i386.changes
 | W: picprog: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man1/picprog.1.gz 44: warning: can't find numbered character 195
 |  pts/3  jan ~/deb$

I have found that when I set LANG to C and run 'man picprog.1' I indeed get a
warning:

 |  pts/3  jan ~/deb$ man -P cat -l picprog-1.8/picprog.1
 | Reformatting picprog.1, please wait...
 | picprog-1.8/picprog.1:44: warning: can't find numbered character 195
 | picprog-1.8/picprog.1:44: warning: can't find numbered character 164
 | PICPROG(1)                                                        PICPROG(1)
 [cut]

In this manpage the character "ä" is used twice. When I change those ä's with a
"a" the warnings disappear.

My question :

How should I handle this? I can modify picprog.1, but the ä is used in the name
of the programmer of picprog (Jaakko Hyvätti) so I don't know if that is really
a good idea?


[*] <http://www.janw.easynet.be/picprog.html>
    <http://hyvatti.iki.fi/~jaakko/pic/picprog.html>

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