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Bugzilla – Full Text Bug Listing |
| Summary: | character set of german rug man page | ||
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| Product: | [openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1 | Reporter: | Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb> |
| Component: | Zenworks | Assignee: | E-mail List <zlm-code10-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Forgotten User YrvzK78Vmi <forgotten_YrvzK78Vmi> |
| Severity: | Minor | ||
| Priority: | P5 - None | CC: | aj, andreas.hanke, dmueller |
| Version: | Final | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Other | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Found By: | Customer | Services Priority: | |
| Business Priority: | Blocker: | --- | |
| Marketing QA Status: | --- | IT Deployment: | --- |
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Description
Elmar Stellnberger
2006-09-12 12:14:21 UTC
The german manpage for rug is still iso-8859-1 encoded. Recoding it to utf8 should fix the problem. Recoding it to utf-8 will fix the problem for konqueror and break it for /usr/bin/man. groff named characters should be used to describe the umlauts. Comment 2 might be wrong, the machinery behind /usr/bin/man seems to be fixed by now to work with UTF-8 man pages. Related: Bug 144726 But the "right" character set for man pages is still the legacy one, i.e. ISO-8859-1 for German, really! Not displaying it correctly is more likely a KDE bug rather than a bug in the rug man page. kde's man page handler currently decodes them as utf-8. if man can handle that, and I assume gnome can do to, this means the bug is in the rug package. No, man can currently not handle man-pages in UTF-8 encoding. The input encoding in groff is currently limited to a few legacy encodings only (the output encoding of groff can be UTF-8, but not the input encoding). In future this will change, the groff developers are working on better UTF-8 support for groff, in future groff will also accept UTF-8 input. But unfortunately not yet. Christoph Thiel> The german manpage for rug is still iso-8859-1 encoded. Recoding it to utf8 Christoph Thiel> should fix the problem. Please don't do that now because groff still doesn't support UTF-8 as an input encoding. Hopefully this will change in future, then we should convert all man-page sources to UTF-8. But not now. Still an issue for so many man pages! really. I think this one is now a 'wontfix'. Please reopen if you think otherwise. (In reply to Aeneas Jaißle from comment #9) > I think this one is now a 'wontfix'. Please reopen if you think otherwise. Also, keep in mind, extended support for SLE10 is expected to end on 2016-07-31. Marking as "resolved wontfix" unless reopened and reassigning to default assignee. |