Bug#575661: lintian: Fix to col command error
Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> writes:
> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 07:43:39AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> My understanding of how man is supposed to work with character
>> encodings says that we should not need to be doing things like this.
>> I've been hoping Colin would weigh in on this bug, though, since he
>> knows way more about what's going on here than I do.
> The current check code seemed to run on all manpages with different
> encoding. So using UTF-8 is not soulution either.
man is supposed to transcode man pages in other encodings to UTF-8 if the
locale is UTF-8, isn't it?
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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