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Re: Putting accented characters in manpages?



On 06.10.05 Rogério Brito (rbrito@ime.usp.br) wrote:
> On Oct 05 2005, Hilmar Preusse wrote:

Hi,

> > 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.
> 
I guess a better target would be the local LUG. I'll ask them too.

Regards,
  Hilmar
-- 
They also serve who only stand and wait.
		-- John Milton
  http://www.hilmar-preusse.de.vu/



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