Hi, Nicolas François wrote:
> The apt-ftparchive man page is generated from an XML document. To > translate this document, the French Tranlation Team translated the > original XML, and then generated the man page from this translated XML > document. > > This worked nice when the man page was generated by a Franch developer > (with an fr_FR.ISO-8859-1 locale, I supppose). But the man page of the > package is not that nice because it was generated by a buildd, with a C > locale (I suppose): all accents are converted to character entities (e.g. > é), which renders the man page hardly readable. (see #327456) > > The attached patch adds a --keep-encoding to xmlto, which disables the > convertion of the XML document to the locale charmap before the xsl > processing. I think, your problem can be easily solved by setting the man.charmap.use.subset parameter to zero, so it replaces all special characters with their Groff code. See /usr/share/doc/docbook-xsl/doc/manpages/man.charmap.use.subset.html Instead of adding a new switch to the xmlto script, maybe this parameter should be set to 0 by default in xmlto to avoid such issues. Regards, Daniel
