Am Dienstag, den 11.09.2007, 12:03 +0100 schrieb Reuben Thomas:

Hello,

> The following manpages in your package appear to be UTF-8 encoded:
> 
> /usr/share/man/man1/mb2md.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."

etch supports utf8 by default so I see no reason not use it.
What are you using that its not 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.

-- 
Noèl Köthe <noel debian.org>
Debian GNU/Linux, www.debian.org

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