On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:15:42AM +0100, W. Martin Borgert wrote: > Package: manpages-es-extra > Version: 0.8a-16 > Severity: minor > > After installing the package informs the user: > > "Para activar estas páginas de manual ponga LC_MESSAGES a 'es' > (o es_ZZ donde ZZ es el código de su pais). Man buscará sus > páginas bajo /usr/share/man/es." > > It uses ISO-8859-1, however, while the default charset in Debian > is UTF-8. Therefore accented characters are not readable.
This message is encoded in ISO-8859-15, true, but debconf should handle this properly. Actually, the translations of this message to other languages are not UTF-8 encoded either). > I wonder, whether this notice is needed. Most manpages packages > seem to live happily without any debian/postinst. Yes, this notice could be removed, this was introduced many years ago and now is quite irrelevant, as users will have this localization value set by the installer anyway. Regards Javier
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