Bug#441819: libxaw-headers: UTF-8 encoded man pages
Package: libxaw-headers
Version: 2:1.0.4-1
Severity: minor
The following manpages in your package appear to be UTF-8 encoded:
/usr/share/man/man3/Xaw.3.gz
According to Colin Watson, "With some exceptions for Far Eastern
languages, manual pages should not at present be encoded using UTF-8.
As such, it's reasonable to file bugs against packages attempting to
use UTF-8 where it is not yet supported."
Hence I'm filing this bug. The solution for now seems to be to encode
the pages as 7-bit ASCII, using the appropriate *roff sequences to
produce accented characters.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages libxaw-headers depends on:
ii libx11-dev 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library (developme
ii libxmu-dev 1:1.0.3-1 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxpm-dev 1:3.5.7-1 X11 pixmap library (development he
ii x11-common 1:7.2-5 X Window System (X.Org) infrastruc
ii x11proto-core-dev 7.0.10-2 X11 core wire protocol and auxilia
libxaw-headers recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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