reassign 483189 man-db 2.5.5-2 retitle 483189 man-db: does not really support UTF-8 manpages severity 483189 important clone 483189 -1 reassign -1 docbook-xsl 1.73.2.dfsg.1-5 retitle -1 manpages/docbook.xsl: please add encoding declarations severity -1 wishlist thanks * Daniel Leidert <daniel.leidert@wgdd.de>, 2008-06-15, 20:28:
The file its actually UTF-8-encoded, but man interprets it as if it was ISO-8859-1.The file itself looks perfectly here. iconv doesn't seem to be happy about the UTF-8 character itself and because of this, man output does not show the character.
After some investigation and reading: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=519209#51 I'm quite sure that the bug has nothing to do with iconv. What is happening here is as follows:manconv tries to convert the manpage from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1, which obviously fails; thus, it assumes the encoding is ISO-8859-1.
To solve the issue:- man should support UTF-8-encoded manual pages with characters not covered by legacy encodings. - docbook stylesheet should be adding encoding declarations to the generated manpages.
-- Jakub Wilk