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> #320471: man-db 2.4.3-1 truncating man pages?,
> which was filed against the man-db package.
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> Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 16:49:52 +0100
> From: Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Subject: Re: Bug#318784: man pages truncated if man-db runs in french locale
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> Source: glibc
> Source-Version: 2.3.5-3
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> On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 07:28:27PM +0200, Laurent Raufaste wrote:
> > As asked, I'm filling a bug regarding some truncated man pages I'm
> > getting on my sid system. It happens on french man pages and on
> > untranslated manpages.
> >
> > For example, when I run 'man man' I'm getting the manpage up to the
> > middle:
> > -Z, --ditroff
> > groff will run troff and then use an appropriate
> > post-processor to produce output suitable for
> > the chosen
> >
> > It stops exactly here.
> >
> > Here's the output of 'man --debug man', thanks for looking into it.
> [...]
> > Starting pipeline: /usr/bin/zsoelim /tmp/zmanAZtJGj | /usr/bin/tbl |
> > /usr/bin/nroff -mandoc -Tlatin1 | iconv -c -f ISO-8859-1 -t ISO-8859-15 |
> > /usr/bin/col -b | /usr/bin/pager -s [input: 0, output: 0]
>
> This bug, and its duplicate #320471, seem to have been primarily caused
> by an iconv bug; 'iconv -c' was erroring out rather than simply omitting
> invalid characters. All of the manual pages mentioned in these bugs
> contain the acute accent symbol (either \(aa or \' in the manual page
> source) which is present in the ISO-8859-1 character set output by groff
> but is not present in the ISO-8859-15 character set requested by your
> locale.
>
> Fortunately, this bug appears to be fixed in glibc 2.3.5, so for now I
> suggest that you upgrade your libc6 package.
[ ... ]
Hi
Thanks a lot!
I just upgraded
libc6, locales and libc6-dev:
$ apt-cache policy man-db libc6
man-db:
Installed: 2.4.3-1
Candidate: 2.4.3-1
[ ... ]
libc6:
Installed: 2.3.5-3
Candidate: 2.3.5-3
[ ... ]
And I can read the man pages again in full length I could not read
before: Again Thanks, for the good work, and for your time. :)
Best Regards
Wolfgang
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