[Pkg-fonts-bugs] Bug#441815: fontforge: UTF-8 encoded man pages
Reuben Thomas
rrt at sc3d.org
Tue Sep 11 11:01:11 UTC 2007
Package: fontforge
Version: 0.0.20070607-4
Severity: minor
The following manpages in your package appear to be UTF-8 encoded:
/usr/share/man/man1/fontforge.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fontimage.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/sfddiff.1.gz
According to Colin Watson, "With some exceptions for Far Eastern
languages, manual pages should not at present be encoded using UTF-8.
As such, it's reasonable to file bugs against packages attempting to
use UTF-8 where it is not yet supported."
Hence I'm filing this bug. The solution for now seems to be to encode
the pages as 7-bit ASCII, using the appropriate *roff sequences to
produce accented characters.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages fontforge depends on:
ii libc6 2.6.1-1+b1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libfreetype6 2.3.5-1+b1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libice6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-2 PNG library - runtime
ii libsm6 2:1.0.3-1+b1 X11 Session Management library
ii libtiff4 3.8.2-7 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii libungif4g 4.1.4-5 shared library for GIF images
ii libuninameslist0 0.0.20060907-2 a library of Unicode annotation da
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxi6 2:1.1.2-1 X11 Input extension library
ii libxml2 2.6.29.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library
ii python2.4 2.4.4-6 An interactive high-level object-o
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-5 compression library - runtime
fontforge recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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