Package: groff-base Version: 1.18.1.1-20 Severity: normal There are manpages that use \' (the escaped version of the apostroph) to get "pretty" quotes around words. However \' maps to the acute accent which is not present in ISO-8859-15 (and some other LatinX variants). Thus the next command in the pipeline 'iconv -c -f ISO-8859-1 -t ISO-8859-15' happily strips out those characters.
Which gives some interesting results when this happens to be in a piece of text that must be rendered bold. On the terminal this is accomplished by using overstriking meaning every character is printed twice with a backspace in between. However when some characters are stripped out by iconv there are stray backspaces left that eat away the remaining text! Example: env LC_ALL=en_US.ISO-8859-15 man smartd.conf and see the explanation for the -l option. Notice how ...by using the '-t short' and '-t long' options... gets truncated to ...by using the-t shor and-t lon options... Clearly not a very desirable result. Maybe a new mdoc.local rule can be added like so: . if '\*[.T]'latin1' \ . char \' \N'39' to always map the \' (escaped apostroph) back to the single ' (apostroph) for the latin1 output device. For UTF8 locales the "pretty" quotes remain intact. For the ascii output device the escaped apostrophs already get mapped back to the single ones. Arjan -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.23.14 (PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages groff-base depends on: ii libc6 2.7-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.3.1-2 GCC support library ii libstdc++6 4.3.1-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 groff-base recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
