Putting accented characters in manpages?
On Oct 05 2005, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
> Further we've written a man page for both programs. When checking it
> using one of the Debian QA tools we get the warning:
>
> W: pfb2t1c2pfb: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man1/pfb2t1c.1.gz
> /tmp/zmanpkICfH:25: warning: can't find numbered character 243
>
> . It is probably caused by the special characters in your name, which
> were put unencoded into the man page.
It seems that I am not alone with this problem (which, as you may have
noticed, has accented characters).
So, I guess that's not only me that would benefit from some light from
people from debian-mentors on what is the best-current-practice on
getting accented characters on manpages.
Thanks for any comments, Rogério Brito.
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