Bug#802721: lintian: mojibake in HTML documentation
* Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>, 2016-06-19, 18:59:
The HTML files in /usr/share/doc/lintian/lintian.html/ are written in
UTF-8, but they don't have any encoding declarations. This makes
Iceweasel display mojibake like "§5.1".
Indeed.
Sadly I got no clue on how to fix that (without "fixing up" the output
with a home-grown post-processor).
Post-processing HTML output might not such a bad idea, at least in the
short run.
docbook2html manpage says that "for the moment, jw does not handle XML,
but only SGML", so it's not surprising that it doesn't fully grok our
XML file. And this tool had last upstream release in 2004, so perhaps we
should migrate to something more modern, like docbook-xsl.
--
Jakub Wilk
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