Public bug reported:
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.8-1ubuntu1
When viewed online [Help > User's Manual], the English README file
contains numerous character encoding errors.
The file doc/html-to-text converts a html document to text in a
particular encoding. The ubuntu patch 14_html2text_preferred ignores
the specified encoding and outputs all text documents in UTF-8. When
viewing these files online the encoding is determined by various
/translated/ strings in the programs source that are not updated by the
patch.
UTF-8 is not equivalent with ISO_8859-1.
The binary package aptitude-common contains a file README, generated at
build time using html-to-text with a /requested encoding/ of ISO_8859-1.
At run time this same encoding is specified at src/ui.cc:1126. The
ubuntu patch causes this file to be encoded in UTF-8 without updating
the metadata, causing the encoding problems for C and other locales that
use this particular file.
14_html2text_preferred must either: respect the requested encoding; or
update the program so that the online viewer does not use the wrong
encoding.
** Affects: aptitude (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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ubuntu patch 14_html2text_preferred encodes README in UTF-8 without
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