On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 14:28:12 +0200, Nicolas François wrote: > On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 11:26:03AM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > > I don't understand why we don't get the same behaviour. > > When I try to view a manpage which is in utf-8, I always see garbage, > > and have to recode it to latin1, that's why I added this. > > What do you mean by "a manpage which is in utf-8"? > If the man page is encoded in utf-8, then that may be the problem. > As I understand it, po4a-translate outputs the translated manpage in the charset of the po file (which, in my case, is utf-8). Then, po4aman-display-po uses iconv to recode that to the current locale charset (which, in my case, is also utf-8) and then feeds that to man. In my experience, man doesn't like that, because it seems to only groks latin1 encoding. My patch tried to recode the output of po4a-translate from the po encoding to latin1.
Cheers, Julien
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