Re: ancient man-db version causes false positives
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 08:59:13PM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 11:45:53AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > "Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> writes:
> >
> > > It appears to be caused by the line ".SH SKŁADNIA" ("synopsis").
> > >
> > > I'm assuming this is an encoding issue, as I can reproduce it on etch
> > > but only with the locale set to "C"; in utf-8 or iso8859-1{,5} there are
> > > no errors.
> >
> > Yeah, Lintian forces a locale of C for everything for consistent results.
> > The error message is very odd, though. I find it a little disturbing that
> > man-db is trying to open files after seeing a non-ASCII character in a
> > section heading.
>
> Sorry for the noise ... the translator did not adjust "Content-Type:
> text/plain; charset=..." (and I did not check), changing this line changes and
> probably fixes also the man page. wesnoth has probably the same problems.
The file was never UTF-8, so charset=ISO-8859-2 was correct. I still
can't reproduce this in my sid-pbuilder, but I can reproduce it on etch
(after dh did it's black magic).
Carsten
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