Bug#575661: lintian: Fix to col command error
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 08:15:57AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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?
My mind is melting ... You are right. Then LANG=en_US.UTF-8 seems to
be right solution.
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