Bug#655201: hyphen-fr: hyph_fr.dic marked as ISO8859-1, should be ISO8859-15
Package: hyphen-fr
Version: 1:3.3.0-3
Severity: normal
The file /usr/share/hyphen/hyph_fr.dic is apparently intended to be
interpreted as ISO8859-15, but is currently marked as being encoded in
ISO8859-1.
In particular, the file contains several occurrences of byte 0xbd,
evidently intended to be interpreted as œ (oe) as per ISO8859-15,
whereas 0xbd in ISO8859-1 is ½.
E.g. the first occurrence of this byte is in the line ".dé2s1œ",
which would make sense for indicating hyphenations such as dés-œuvré,
whereas "dés-½..." is not a useful hyphenation.
Changing from ISO8859-1 to ISO8859-15 has no effect on the file other
than for the 0xbd character, as can be tested by doing
recode ISO8859-1 < hyph_fr.dic > a &&
recode ISO8859-15 < hyph_fr.dic > b &&
diff -du a b
Accordingly, please change the first line of the file from ISO8859-1
to ISO8859-15.
Thanks,
pjrm.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers oldstable
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages hyphen-fr depends on:
ii dictionaries-common [openoffice.org-updatedicts] 1.11.6
Versions of packages hyphen-fr recommends:
pn libreoffice-writer | openoffice.org-writer <none>
hyphen-fr suggests no packages.
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