GNU bug report logs - #13288
charset in man ls

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From: Mario Bachmann <mario.bachmann <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: charset in man ls
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 12:45:07 +0100

Hello there, 

if I type "man ls" in a terminal, i get characters of german language. 

We have äöüß ÄÖÜẞ

I hopefully use a unicode gentoo linux. 
# locale
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

# set |grep LC
LC_COLLATE=C

# set |grep LANG
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8

man ls
shows the following:

BEZEICHNUNG
       ls - Verzeichnisinhalte auflisten

[...]

       --block-size=GR)SSE
              Blöcke von GRÃSSE Byte benutzen. Zum Format von GRÃSSE siehe unten

GRÖSSE would be right. The Character Ö is wrong (Ã).


My /etc/man.conf shows
TROFF		/usr/bin/groff -Tps -mandoc
NROFF		/usr/bin/nroff -mandoc
JNROFF		/usr/bin/groff -Tnippon -mandocj
EQN		/usr/bin/geqn -Tps
NEQN		/usr/bin/geqn -Tlatin1
JNEQN		/usr/bin/geqn -Tnippon

Greetings from Augsburg, Germany
Mario Bachmann

Message #8 received at 13288 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Mario Bachmann <mario.bachmann <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 13288 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#13288: charset in man ls
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 12:02:44 +0000

tag 13288 notabug
stop

On 12/27/2012 11:45 AM, Mario Bachmann wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> if I type "man ls" in a terminal, i get characters of german language.
>
> We have äöüß ÄÖÜẞ
>
> I hopefully use a unicode gentoo linux.
> # locale
> LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
> LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"
> LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8"
> LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8"
> LC_COLLATE=C
> LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8"
> LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8"
> LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8"
> LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8"
> LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8"
> LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8"
> LC_ALL=
>
> # set |grep LC
> LC_COLLATE=C
>
> # set |grep LANG
> LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
>
> man ls
> shows the following:
>
> BEZEICHNUNG
>         ls - Verzeichnisinhalte auflisten
>
> [...]
>
>         --block-size=GR)SSE
>                Blöcke von GRÃSSE Byte benutzen. Zum Format von GRÃSSE siehe unten
>
> GRÖSSE would be right. The Character Ö is wrong (Ã).
>
>
> My /etc/man.conf shows
> TROFF		/usr/bin/groff -Tps -mandoc
> NROFF		/usr/bin/nroff -mandoc
> JNROFF		/usr/bin/groff -Tnippon -mandocj
> EQN		/usr/bin/geqn -Tps
> NEQN		/usr/bin/geqn -Tlatin1
> JNEQN		/usr/bin/geqn -Tnippon
>
> Greetings from Augsburg, Germany
> Mario Bachmann

I'm closing this bug in coreutils as the translation is not done here.
Note also that the tranlation seems correct:
http://translationproject.org/PO-files/de/coreutils-8.20-pre1.de.po
So I suspect the issue is in the generation of the man page,
or the final rendering/display on your system.

thanks,
Pádraig.

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