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Re: ancient man-db version causes false positives



On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 20:59 +0200, Carsten Hey 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.
[...]
> One thing I still don't understand is why I couldn't reproduce this warning,
> neither on plain etch nor in my sid pbuilder.

Which locale were you using when checking on etch? As mentioned above,
the error will only occur when the C locale is being used (e.g. by
"LANG=C man") and is then reproducible on etch.

Adam


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