Package: manpages-zh Version: 1.5-1 Severity: wishlist The man pages shipped in manpages-zh are using the GB encoding. With Colin Watson's help, I've found that four pages among them are not GBK-compatible.
Three of the four pages -- mirror(1l), while(3tcl), and wish(1) are using the copyright symbol (©, U+00A9), and the fourth one, gcc(1) is using U+FFFD (REPLACEMENT CHARACTER according to Unicode standard, whatever that means). These characters are encoded as GB18030 in the man pages. Please consider patching the man pages to make them GBK-compatible, as currently man-db use GBK as the default encoding for zh_CN man pages. The © symbol can be replaced by "(C)" or "(c)", and the U+FFFD character can be just removed (I read the context and think it's useless). The configuration in man-db can be changed, of course, but GB18030 encoding is not really widely used, so I think it would be nice to keep GB encoding texts confined in the GBK charset only. Ming 2007.09.20 -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
