Bug#555330: lintian: manpage-has-errors-from-man does not work correctly

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

Michael Meskes wrote:
> When running under locale C the test does not work correctly:
>
> michael@feivel:~$ LANG=C man --warnings -E UTF-8 -l
> /usr/share/man/man8/acpid.8.gz >/dev/null
> col: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
[...]
> The reason seems to be that man pipes its output through col when not
> displaying on a terminal and col setting the local to C which
> apparently does not mean UTF-8. Therefore the unicode hyphen (e2 80 90) 
> triggers the
> above mentioned error message in col's file io.

The above usage has, however, previously worked without issues.  col was 
recently upgraded to a new upstream version, which seems to be when the 
issue occurred.

I'll leave this bug filed against Lintian for the moment until the situation 
is clearer; #555331 is a related bug against bsdmainutils.

Regards,

Adam