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Bug#441834: marked as done (apt: UTF-8 encoded man page)

Your message dated Sun, 02 Nov 2008 12:00:43 +0200
with message-id <490D7A4B.8010304@gmail.com>
and subject line closing #441834
has caused the Debian Bug report #441834,
regarding apt: UTF-8 encoded man page
to be marked as done.

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Package: apt
Version: 0.7.6
Severity: minor

The following manpages in your package appear to be UTF-8 encoded:

/usr/share/man/man8/apt-secure.8.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.


-- Package-specific info:

-- (/etc/apt/preferences present, but not submitted) --


-- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) --


-- 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 apt depends on:
ii  debian-archive-keyring        2007.07.31 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii  libc6                         2.6.1-1+b1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.2.1-4  GCC support library
ii  libstdc++6                    4.2.1-4    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

apt recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- 
Debian policy 3.8.0 explicitly says that UTF-8 is now allowed in.
Thus, closing the bug.

-- 
Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, Ukrainian C++ developer.

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