Subject: bug#32480: closed (Re: bug#32480: Acknowledgement (Truncated/repeating utf-8 man pages))

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Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 10:32:03 +0000

Your bug report

#32480: Truncated/repeating utf-8 man pages

which was filed against the guix package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#32480: Acknowledgement (Truncated/repeating utf-8 man pages)
From: Pierre Neidhardt <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 12:31:39 +0200
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Duplicate of 30785.
Closing.

Subject: Truncated/repeating utf-8 man pages
From: Pierre Neidhardt <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 12:23:07 +0200
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The 'man' program from the 'man-db' Guix package has an issue with UTF-8
man pages: the page is truncated and sometimes the truncation is
repeated a couple of times.

The bug does not occur when non-ASCII characters are removed.
I haven't tried with other non-ASCII encodings.

There must be something wrong with the way we package man-db.

See https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2018-05/msg00084.html
for a discussion.