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Truncated/repeating utf-8 man pages

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#32480: closed (Re: bug#32480: Acknowledgement (Truncated/repeating
 utf-8 man pages))
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 10:32:03 +0000

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Your bug report

#32480: Truncated/repeating utf-8 man pages

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

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 32480 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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From: Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar <at> gmail.com>
To: 32480-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#32480: Acknowledgement (Truncated/repeating utf-8 man pages)
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 12:31:39 +0200

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Duplicate of 30785.
Closing.

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From: Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Truncated/repeating utf-8 man pages
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.

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