Debian Bug report logs - #441811
amule: UTF-8 encoded man page

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: amule: UTF-8 encoded man page

Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:58:13 +0100

Package: amule
Version: 2.1.3-4
Severity: minor

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

/usr/share/man/de/man1/amule.1.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 amule depends on:
ii  amule-common            2.1.3-4          common files for the rest of aMule
ii  libc6                   2.6.1-1+b1       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcrypto++6            5.5-4            General purpose cryptographic shar
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.2.1-4        GCC support library
ii  libstdc++6              4.2.1-4          The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libwxbase2.6-0          2.6.3.2.1.5      wxBase library (runtime) - non-GUI
ii  libwxgtk2.6-0           2.6.3.2.1.5      wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI t
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-5 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages amule recommends:
pn  amule-utils                   <none>     (no description available)

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Message #10 received at 441811-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Vollstrecker <amule@vollstreckernet.de>

To: 441811-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Not true anymore

Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 14:04:05 +0100

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Hi,

according to current debian-policy section 12.1 chapter 6 and footnote 
3, this not true anymore.

-- 
MfG usw.

Vollstrecker
registered Linuxuser: 295882

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