Bug#391699: apt: Japanese manpages wrongly encoded when built with DocBook XSL >=1.69.0
Package: apt
Version: 0.6.46.1
Severity: important
Tags: patch l10n
Hi,
The Japanese manpage apt(8) is found to be UTF-8-encoded[1]. Since
manpages do not have encoding information, Japanese manpages under
/usr/share/man/ja are all handled as EUC-JP-encoded files by the
man-db program[2], and UTF-8-encoded ones cannot displayed correctly
(nearly all the characters turn into garbage). I've created a patch
to fix it and attach here, with the severity "important" since
manpages are important resources for users.
For more information, see my report #391061 for the aptitude package.
[1] http://lists.debian.or.jp/debian-users/200610/msg00010.html (in Japanese)
[2] man-db src/encodings.c
Thanks,
-nori
-- Package-specific info:
-- (/etc/apt/preferences present, but not submitted) --
-- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) --
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-3-686
Locale: LANG=ja_JP.eucJP, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.eucJP (charmap=EUC-JP)
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-13sarge1 GCC support library
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-13 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
-- no debconf information
--- doc/ja/style.ja.xsl.orig 2006-03-02 23:28:52.000000000 +0900
+++ doc/ja/style.ja.xsl 2006-10-08 13:10:32.000000000 +0900
@@ -4,6 +4,6 @@
<xsl:import href="/usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/nwalsh/manpages/docbook.xsl" />
-<xsl:param name="chunker.output.encoding" select="'EUC-JP'" />
+<xsl:param name="man.output.encoding" select="'EUC-JP'" />
</xsl:stylesheet>
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