Package: man-db
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Severity: normal
Previously this "worked" but I notice that now with at this the
current Sid version it produces the following noise upon exit.
rwp@sid:~$ env -i PATH=$PATH HOME=$HOME USER=$USER TERM=$TERM MANWIDTH=80
man --encoding=ASCII mv
man: command exited with status 127: iconv -c -f UTF-8 -t ASCII//TRANSLIT |
sed -e '/^[[:space:]]*$/{ N; /^[[:space:]]*\n[[:space:]]*$/D; }' |
LESS=-ix8RmPm Manual page mv(1) ?ltline %lt?L/%L.:byte %bB?s/%s..?e (END):?pB
%pB\%.. (press h for help or q to quit)$PM Manual page mv(1) ?ltline
%lt?L/%L.:byte %bB?s/%s..?e (END):?pB %pB\%.. (press h for help or q to quit)$
MAN_PN=mv(1) pager
rwp@sid:~$ echo $?
3
I have been using --encoding=ASCII for a long time. Personal
preference. Then recently noticed the above upon 'q' to exit the
pager and error exit code. But the below is slightly more concise to
document.
rwp@sid:~$ env -i PATH=$PATH HOME=$HOME USER=$USER TERM=$TERM MANWIDTH=80
man --encoding=ASCII mv >/dev/null
man: command exited with status 127: iconv -c -f UTF-8 -t ASCII//TRANSLIT |
col -b -p -x | sed -e '/^[[:space:]]*$/{ N; /^[[:space:]]*\n[[:space:]]*$/D; }'
rwp@sid:~$ env -i PATH=$PATH HOME=$HOME USER=$USER TERM=$TERM MANWIDTH=80
man --encoding=US-ASCII mv >/dev/null
man: command exited with status 127: iconv -c -f UTF-8 -t
US-ASCII//TRANSLIT | col -b -p -x | sed -e '/^[[:space:]]*$/{ N;
/^[[:space:]]*\n[[:space:]]*$/D; }'
Because I hit this of course I went and read the man page in detail.
-E encoding, --encoding=encoding
Generate output for a character encoding other than the default.
For backward compatibility, encoding may be an nroff device such
as ascii, latin1, or utf8 as well as a true character encoding
such as UTF-8.
And having read that I did try the other documented encodings and
found that these two make no error.
rwp@sid:~$ env -i PATH=$PATH HOME=$HOME USER=$USER TERM=$TERM MANWIDTH=80
man --encoding=UTF-8 mv >/dev/null ; echo $?
0
rwp@sid:~$ env -i PATH=$PATH HOME=$HOME USER=$USER TERM=$TERM MANWIDTH=80
man --encoding=ascii mv >/dev/null ; echo $?
0
Clearly I can change from ASCII to ascii and have the behavior I
desire without an error but I report the problem regardless because it
is a new bug appearing from somewhere. iconv itself is working.
rwp@sid:~$ iconv --list | grep -i ascii
ASCII//
CSASCII//
US-ASCII//
rwp@sid:~$ echo dæmon | iconv -f UTF-8 -t ASCII//TRANSLIT
daemon
Thank you for maintaining man in Debian!
Bob
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