Bug#428627: Lintian gets confused if locale encoding differs from manpage encoding
Robert Grønning <slimg@iggu.org> writes:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 1.23.27
> I'm writing a latin1 encoded manpage that contains amongst ordinary
> characters a special norwegian character "ø" (latin1 character number:
> 248)
> When I run lintian on the .deb with the mentioned manpage, it gives me
> the following:
> warning: can't find numbered character 248
> My untested theory for this error is that my locale encoding is set to
> UTF-8. I believe that if the locale encoding is the same as the manpage
> encoding, this warning won't occur.
Is this man page being installed in /usr/share/man/no? If so, I think
you're right and this is a false positive. (If it's installed directly in
/usr/share/man, there's a different answer.)
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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