> KISE Hiroshi found[1] that the Japanese manpage aptitude(8) is
> UTF-8-encoded.  Since manpages do not have encoding information,
> Japanese manpages under /usr/share/man/ja are all handled as
> EUC-JP-encoded files by the man-db program[2], and UTF-8-encoded ones
> cannot displayed correctly (nearly all the characters turn into
> garbage).  I've created a patch to fix it and attach here, with the
> severity "important" since manpages are important resources for users.


Nice catch. Committed to my archive and sent to Daniel.

You're doing a tremendous work on these issues. Congratulations and
thanks again.


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