Bug#437945: marked as forwarded (ascii: prints weird results for non-ascii chars)

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has caused the   report #437945,
regarding ascii: prints weird results for non-ascii chars
to be marked as having been forwarded to the upstream software
author(s) "Eric S. Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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Hello again,

there's another bugreport in the Debian BTS I haven't forwarded yet,
please see <http://bugs.debian.org/437945>.

For the sake of completeness, please find attached the full debdiff of
the current Debian package as it applies to your upstream work: some
nametable fixes and simplified ascii.xml to make Debian xmlto actually
build the manpage.

Cheers,
Flo

--- ascii-3.8.orig/nametable
+++ ascii-3.8/nametable
@@ -24,18 +24,18 @@
 %%
 Mnemonics: "BEL",
 ISO names: "Bell",
-C escape:  "\a" 
+C escape:  "\\a",
 Synonyms:  "Alert",
 %%
 Mnemonics: "BS",
 ISO names: "Backspace",
 C escape:  "\\b",
 %%
-Mnemonics: "HT"  "TAB",
-ISO names: "Character Tabulation", "Horizontal Tab" 
+Mnemonics: "HT", "TAB",
+ISO names: "Character Tabulation", "Horizontal Tab",
 C escape:  "\\t",
 %%
-Mnemonics: "LF"  "NL",
+Mnemonics: "LF", "NL",
 ISO name: "Line Feed", "Newline",
 C escape:  "\\n",
 %%
@@ -135,24 +135,24 @@
 %%
 Mnemonics: "&",
 ISO names: "Ampersand",
-Synonyms: "Amper", "And", 
+Synonyms: "Amper", "And",
 XML name:  "&amp;",
 %%
 Mnemonics: "'",
 ISO names: "Apostrophe",
-Synonyms: "Single Quote", "Close Quote"  "Prime",
+Synonyms: "Single Quote", "Close Quote", "Prime",
        "Tick", "Pop", "Spark", "Glitch",
 XML name: "&apos;",
 Comment: "# See ` and \" for matching names.",
 %%
 Mnemonics: "(",
 ISO names: "Left Parenthesis",
-Synonyms:  "Open", "Open Paren", "Left Paren", "Wane", "Sad",
+Synonyms:  "Open", "Open Paren", "Left Paren", "Wax", "Sad",
 Comment: "# See `)' for matching names.",
 %%
 Mnemonics: ")",
 ISO names: "Right Parenthesis",
-Synonyms: "Close", "Close Paren", "Right Paren", "Wax", "Happy",
+Synonyms: "Close", "Close Paren", "Right Paren", "Wane", "Happy",
 Comment: "# See `(' for matching names.",
 %%
 Mnemonics: "*",
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@
 ISO names: "Less-than Sign",
 Synonyms:  "Left Angle Bracket", "Read From", "In",
        "From", "Comesfrom", "Left Funnel", "Left Broket", "Crunch",
-       "Suck", 
+       "Suck",
 XML name:  "&lt;",
 Comment:   "# See `>' for matching names.",
 %%
@@ -234,9 +234,9 @@
 %%
 Mnemonics: ">",
 ISO names: "Greater-than sign",
-Synonyms: "Right Angle"  "Write To", "Into", "Toward",
+Synonyms: "Right Angle Bracket", "Write To", "Into", "Toward",
        "Out", "To", "Gozinta", "Right Funnel",
-       "Right Broket", "Zap", "Blow", 
+       "Right Broket", "Zap", "Blow",
 XML name:  "&gt;",
 Comments: "# See `<' for matching names.",
 %%
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@
 Mnemonics: "Z",
 ISO names: "Majuscule Z", "Capital Z", "Uppercase Z",
 %%
-Mnemonics: "["         
+Mnemonics: "[",
 ISO names: "Left Square Bracket",
 Synonyms:  "Bracket", "Bra", "Square",
 Comments:  "# See `]' for matching names.",
@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@
 ISO names: "Low Line",
 Synonyms: "Underscore", "Underline", "Underbar",
        "Under", "Score", "Backarrow", "Flatworm",
-# `Backarrow' refers to this character's graphic in 1963 ASCII.",
+Comments: "# `Backarrow' refers to this character's graphic in 1963 ASCII.",
 %%
 Mnemonics: "`",
 ISO names: "Grave Accent",
@@ -439,16 +439,16 @@
 Mnemonics: "z",
 ISO names: "Miniscule z", "Small z", "Lowercase z",
 %%
-Mnemonics: "{"         
+Mnemonics: "{",
 ISO names:  "Left Curly Bracket",
-Synonyms: "Left Brace", "Brace", "Open Brace""Curly", "Leftit", "Embrace",
+Synonyms: "Left Brace", "Brace", "Open Brace", "Curly", "Leftit", "Embrace",
 Comments: "# See `}' for matching names.",
 %%
-Mnemonics: "|"         
+Mnemonics: "|",
 ISO names: "Vertical Line",
 Synonyms: "Pipe", "Bar", "Or", "V-Bar", "Spike", "Gozinta", "Thru",
 %%
-Mnemonics: "}"         
+Mnemonics: "}",
 ISO names: "Right Curly Bracket",
 Synonyms: "Right Brace", "Unbrace", "Close Brace",
        "Uncurly", "Rytit", "Bracelet",
--- ascii-3.8.orig/ascii.xml
+++ ascii-3.8/ascii.xml
@@ -28,73 +28,44 @@
 `ascii -h'.  Options are as follows:</para>
 <variablelist remap='TP'>
 <varlistentry>
-<term>
-<cmdsynopsis>
-  <arg choice='plain'>-t </arg>
-</cmdsynopsis>
-</term>
+<term>-t </term>
 <listitem>
 <para>Script-friendly mode, emits only ISO/decimal/hex/octal/binary
 encodings of the character.</para>
 </listitem>
 </varlistentry>
 <varlistentry>
-<term>
-<cmdsynopsis>
-  <arg choice='plain'>-s </arg>
-</cmdsynopsis>
-</term>
+<term>-s </term>
 <listitem>
 <para>Parse multiple characters.  Convenient way of parsing strings.</para>
 </listitem>
 </varlistentry>
 <varlistentry>
-<term>
-<cmdsynopsis>
-  <arg choice='plain'>-d </arg>
-</cmdsynopsis>
-</term>
+<term>-d </term>
 <listitem>
 <para>Ascii table in decimal.</para>
 </listitem>
 </varlistentry>
 <varlistentry>
-<term>
-<cmdsynopsis>
-  <arg choice='plain'>-x </arg>
-</cmdsynopsis>
-</term>
+<term>-x </term>
 <listitem>
 <para>Ascii table in hex.</para>
 </listitem>
 </varlistentry>
 <varlistentry>
-<term>
-<cmdsynopsis>
-  <arg choice='plain'>-o </arg>
-</cmdsynopsis>
-</term>
+<term>-o </term>
 <listitem>
 <para>Ascii table in octal.</para>
 </listitem>
 </varlistentry>
 <varlistentry>
-<term>
-<cmdsynopsis>
-  <arg choice='plain'>-h, </arg>
-  <arg choice='plain'>-? </arg>
-</cmdsynopsis>
-</term>
+<term>-h, -? </term>
 <listitem>
 <para>Show summary of options and a simple ASCII table.</para>
 </listitem>
 </varlistentry>
 <varlistentry>
-<term>
-<cmdsynopsis>
-  <arg choice='plain'>-v </arg>
-</cmdsynopsis>
-</term>
+<term>-v </term>
 <listitem>
 <para>Show version of program.</para>
 </listitem>

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