Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: manpages
Type "man iso-8859-7". You are supposed to get a table showing the
actual Greek letters next to their textual descriptions. But instead
you just get the latin-1 characters of the corresponding codepoints.
Example line:
353 235 EB ë GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA
which is clearly wrong, it's an e with diaeresis, not a lamda.
Similar happens to all the other iso-8859-* manpages. In their current
state they are pretty pointless.
"man koi8-r" is actually even worse, rendering the manpage stops at the
first char that it wants to display. Using "less" as the pager I get
this:
Oct Dec Hex Char Description
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
FORMS LIGHT HORIZONTAL
200 128 .nr03bot 0>?40
Manual page koi8-r(7) line 1/30 (END)
All these manpages should properly show the characters they are talking
about, no matter whether they are Greek or Russian or any other symbols.
(I'd like to use these manpages as sources of copy-pasting letters, for
example.)
Of course I'm using UTF-8 everywhere. I have Hardy 8.04.1.
** Affects: manpages (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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manpages of character sets are broken
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/270589
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