Bug#441822: libxft-dev: UTF-8 encoded man page
Package: libxft-dev
Version: 2.1.12-2
Severity: minor
The following manpages in your package appear to be UTF-8 encoded:
/usr/share/man/man3/Xft.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 libxft-dev depends on:
ii libc6-dev [libc-dev] 2.6.1-1+b1 GNU C Library: Development Librari
ii libfontconfig1-dev 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6-dev 2.3.5-1+b1 FreeType 2 font engine, developmen
ii libx11-dev 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library (developme
ii libxft2 2.1.12-2 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxrender-dev 1:0.9.2-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii x11-common 1:7.2-5 X Window System (X.Org) infrastruc
ii zlib1g-dev [libz-dev] 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-5 compression library - development
libxft-dev recommends no packages.
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