[Pkg-fonts-bugs] Bug#441815: fontforge: UTF-8 encoded man pages

[Reuben Thomas]

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.

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