Package: groff Version: 1.18.1.1-8 Severity: important Tags: l10n Greetings from Tokyo.
Bad news: Handling of \% in LANG=ja_JP.eucJP environments is borked. In a LANG=C environment, a word preceded by a \% character does not get hyphenated under any circumstances. That is good. It is the expected behavior. But n a LANG=ja_JP.eucJP environment, if a word preceded by a hyphen ends up falling at the end of a line in rendered output, it may unexpectedly get hyphenated. That is bad. The groff info docs make it clear that \% prevents hyphenation: To tell `gtroff' how to hyphenate words on the fly, use the `\%' escape, also known as the "hyphenation character". Preceding a word with this character prevents it from being hyphenated [...] Here is a minimal document that can be used to see the problem: .TH "EXAMPLE" 7 "2007\-09\-04" "Version 1" "Controlling hyphenation" .\" ================================================================ .SH "NAME" .\" ================================================================ example \- show some problem with preventing hyphenation .\" ================================================================ .SH "DESCRIPTION" .\" ================================================================ .PP Values for the \%version, \%recovery, \%debugging, \%timing, \%output, \%repeat, \%compression, \%insert, \%formatting, \%encodings, \%catalogs, \%automation, \%register, \%validate options may be set in the configuration file as well as via the command line. Regards, --Michael Smith -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (70, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.7 Locale: LANG=ja_JP.eucJP, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.eucJP (charmap=EUC-JP) Versions of packages groff depends on: ii groff-base 1.18.1.1-8 GNU troff text-formatting system ( ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcc1 1:4.0.0-9 GCC support library ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System Session Management ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-13 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System protocol client li ii libxaw7 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Athena widget set library ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxmu6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System miscellaneous util ii libxpm4 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X pixmap library ii libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Toolkit Intrinsics ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu -- debconf information: * groff/package-split: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
