Subject: bug#13288: charset in man ls

From: Mario Bachmann <[email-masked]>
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