Bug#524406: apt: use //TRANSLIT when recoding Description
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 12:07:01PM +0200, Michael Schutte wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:48:54PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > Package: kbd
> > Version: 1.15-1
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > The description currently says:
> > Description: Linux console font and keytable utilities
> > This package allows you to set up the Linux console, change the font,
> > resize text mode virtual consoles and remap the keyboard.
> > .
> > You will probably want to install a set of data files, such as the one
> > in the
> >
> >
> > I think there is a part missing.
>
> The description is complete, but the next character is a Unicode
> character (LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK, ") without a direct counterpart
> in the charset you use. Some other packages are also affected by this --
> try "LANG=C apt-cache show writer2latex", for example -, so I guess it
> makes sense to tackle this problem at its root.
The patch I provided in #457489 should atleast have given me
an indication that there is some encoding problem.
Kurt
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