Re: Bug#349938: Encoding of manpages

[Anand Kumria <wildfire@progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 12:57:40PM +0100, Nicolas François wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> In rpm 4.4.1-5, the Korean man pages are encoded in UTF-8.
> Can you check if they are displayed correctly in a Korean environment.
> 
> IMO, they should be encoded in EUC-KR, however iconv fails to recode the
> rpm man page to EUC-KR.

You absolutely want to have the manpages *source* in UTF8, principally
for keeping sync. with upstream but also so we can make changes easily.

> If the man page must be recoded, can anybody check why iconv is failing,
> and submit a patch for the rpm.8 and rpm2cpio.8 man page. I think the man
> pages use a character that can't be recoded in EUC-KR.
> 
> $ LC_ALL=C iconv -t EUC-KR -f UTF-8 < doc/ko/rpm.8 > /dev/null
> iconv: illegal input sequence at position 79

Ahh, that means the rpm.8 manpage will be corrupt for Korean users; we will 
have to see what the problematic characters are so we can strip them out 
before doing the conversion then.

Thanks for pointing that out.

Regards,
Anand

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