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Re: Putting accented characters in manpages?



You and me buddy, you and me.

 - João Pinheiro

Rogério Brito wrote:

>On Oct 05 2005, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
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>
>>Further we've written a man page for both programs. When checking it
>>using one of the Debian QA tools we get the warning:
>>
>>W: pfb2t1c2pfb: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man1/pfb2t1c.1.gz
>>/tmp/zmanpkICfH:25: warning: can't find numbered character 243
>>
>>. It is probably caused by the special characters in your name, which
>>were put unencoded into the man page.
>>    
>>
>
>It seems that I am not alone with this problem (which, as you may have
>noticed, has accented characters).
>
>So, I guess that's not only me that would benefit from some light from
>people from debian-mentors on what is the best-current-practice on
>getting accented characters on manpages.
>
>
>Thanks for any comments, Rogério Brito.
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