Hi Colin, it becomes now slightly off topic but let me reply a last time to this bug report.
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 01:11:04PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:30:39AM +0200, Jens Seidel wrote: > Vietnamese is an odd case. In the long term, I think being explicit > (vi.UTF-8) is the right answer anyway. OK. > I'm not sure how to word this in policy though; do you have any > suggestions? How about: "It is therefore not yet recommended to install UTF-8 encoded pages if a classical encoding can be used instead, but rather to continue using the legacy encoding." > Maybe it would be better for me to just focus on getting man-db 2.5.0 > done ASAP and not worry too much about policy in the meantime. :-) Right :-) > That Bulgarian page is a particularly unfortunate example because it > uses the ѝ character which is not in CP1251 (the encoding of the bg_BG Hm, OK. Bulgarian is very similar to Russian so I really wondered that it wasn't supported. charsets(7) mentions the 8859-5 encoding for Bulgarian but I wrongly assumed this manpage documents valid man file encodings :-) > locale), so right now we have no reliable path to render this page. I've > added Bulgarian support anyway, it's just that this page will be a bit Thanks. > broken. I think you would be best advised to move this page to > /usr/share/man/bg.UTF-8 given that it definitely won't work in OK, will do so. But as dh_installman doesn't support it yet I need to do it manually (not a big task). > /usr/share/man/bg. > > In the case of the Vietnamese page, please change the "—" character > (U+2014) to "\-" as is standard in NAME sections; otherwise this works Oops, Clytie used a Unicode character and Lintian or po4a did not complained :-( I will file a bug against Lintian ... > fine when recoded via TCVN5712-1 so I've added support for this too. Great, but I think TCVN5712-1 is not supported by po4a as output encoding. > Again, I think you would be best advised to install this in > /usr/share/man/vi.UTF-8. Thanks, I will do so. It's really nice that we will have soon a first Bulgarian manpage in Debian. There are probably also not more Vietnamese pages installed. Thanks, again Jens
