inconsistent czech man pages - different encoding

[Martin Jaburek]

Binary package hint: language-pack-cs

I found it by using man aptitude (Kubuntu Feisy Fawn 7.04 up to date 4.8.2007, locales are cs_CZ.UTF-8), man page is localized, but incorrect encoding (utf-8). So I try:

martin@kopretina:/usr/share/man/cs$ find /usr/share/man/cs -type f -print0 |xargs -0 -i bash -c "echo {};zcat {} | enca"

/usr/share/man/cs/man8/groupmod.8.gz
ISO 8859-2 standard; ISO Latin 2
/usr/share/man/cs/man8/aptitude.8.gz
Universal transformation format 8 bits; UTF-8
/usr/share/man/cs/man8/iwevent.8.gz
7bit ASCII characters
/usr/share/man/cs/man8/groupdel.8.gz
ISO 8859-2 standard; ISO Latin 2
/usr/share/man/cs/man8/grpck.8.gz
ISO 8859-2 standard; ISO Latin 2
/usr/share/man/cs/man8/iwgetid.8.gz
7bit ASCII characters
/usr/share/man/cs/man8/iwspy.8.gz
7bit ASCII characters
/usr/share/man/cs/man8/iwpriv.8.gz
7bit ASCII characters
/usr/share/man/cs/man8/faillog.8.gz
ISO 8859-2 standard; ISO Latin 2
/usr/share/man/cs/man8/groupadd.8.gz
ISO 8859-2 standard; ISO Latin 2
/usr/share/man/cs/man8/iwconfig.8.gz
ISO 8859-2 standard; ISO Latin 2
/usr/share/man/cs/man8/iwlist.8.gz
7bit ASCII characters
/usr/share/man/cs/man8/nologin.8.gz
ISO 8859-2 standard; ISO Latin 2
/usr/share/man/cs/man8/lastlog.8.gz
ISO 8859-2 standard; ISO Latin 2
/usr/share/man/cs/man8/vipw.8.gz
ISO 8859-2 standard; ISO Latin 2
/usr/share/man/cs/man1/su.1.gz
ISO 8859-2 standard; ISO Latin 2
/usr/share/man/cs/man1/expiry.1.gz
ISO 8859-2 standard; ISO Latin 2
/usr/share/man/cs/man1/gpasswd.1.gz
ISO 8859-2 standard; ISO Latin 2
/usr/share/man/cs/man7/wireless.7.gz
ISO 8859-2 standard; ISO Latin 2
/usr/share/man/cs/man5/gshadow.5.gz
ISO 8859-2 standard; ISO Latin 2
/usr/share/man/cs/man5/passwd.5.gz
ISO 8859-2 standard; ISO Latin 2
/usr/share/man/cs/man5/faillog.5.gz
ISO 8859-2 standard; ISO Latin 2
/usr/share/man/cs/man5/shadow.5.gz
ISO 8859-2 standard; ISO Latin 2

ASCII pages are not translated
aptitude is UTF-8 encoded
rest of them are latin2

Do you planning migrate to UTF-8?
Will be in the future included traslated pages man-pages-cs? (maintained at http://sweb.cz/tropikhajma/man-pages-cs/index.html)

[Martin Böhm (martin.bohm)]

Thank you for your bug report. I am afraid it is not the translation team's fault. I suspect it is an upstream (most likely Debian) bug or a bug related to migrating data from Debian to Ubuntu.

Do you know about the situation in Debian? Are their man pages all correctly set up?

[Martin Jaburek (longmatys)]

I don't know. I just installed kubuntu and found this problem. What about man-pages-cs? They are completely missing.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

This was sort of an aptitude bug; at that point, it shouldn't have been installing UTF-8 manual pages. However, man-db 2.5.0 begins the migration to UTF-8 manual pages, and in Hardy the Czech versions of aptitude(8) and groupmod(8) both display more or less properly. (Some accented characters in aptitude(8) are displayed as their nearest ASCII equivalents; this is ultimately due to lack of Unicode input support in groff, which is actively being worked on.)

Once I release man-db 2.5.1 in a few weeks' time, we'll begin the migration to UTF-8 manual pages in Debian in earnest. I'm not sure if this will land in time for Hardy, but at this point that shouldn't matter too much; your basic problem is fixed.

I've filed http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=459776 asking for a Czech-speaking developer to package the set of Czech manual pages you mentioned.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

manpages-cs is now on its way into Hardy, which should clear up the rest of this bug. Thanks for your report.