also sprach Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.05.22.2152 +0200]:
> I processed it with db2pdf, which worked, but it got the ISO-8859-2
> encoding screwed up (processed as Latin-1, even though it specified
> the encoding. *sigh*).  It should really be UTF-8 encoded [but db2pdf
> can't cope with UTF-8 at all].  The DocBook toolchain is really
> dire...

Uh, is the encoding screwed up beyond the point of usability, or
simply a little here and there? If the latter, I suggest to upload
a new version using db2pdf and making this bug minor.

> One solution would be for the upstream maintainer to provide the
> docs pre-built in the tarball. 

PDF != source code. :/
and if you can't build it, some people are going to object.

Why PDF? Can't you just make HTML documentation from the XML and be
done with it?

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