Bug 144766 - Russian man-page for artsmessage contains У
Summary: Russian man-page for artsmessage contains У
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: SUSE Linux 10.1
Classification: openSUSE
Component: KDE (show other bugs)
Version: Beta 1
Hardware: Other Linux
: P5 - None : Normal (vote)
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Assignee: Mike Fabian
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Reported: 2006-01-23 11:29 UTC by Mike Fabian
Modified: 2006-02-16 11:48 UTC (History)
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Description Mike Fabian 2006-01-23 11:29:01 UTC 
I don't think groff can handle input like "У".
Comment 1 Mike Fabian 2006-01-23 11:30:31 UTC 
See also bug #144726.
Comment 2 Mike Fabian 2006-01-23 11:35:06 UTC 
mfabian@magellan:~$ rpm -qf /usr/share/man/ru/man1/artsmessage.1.gz
kde3-i18n-ru-3.5.0-8
mfabian@magellan:~$

The contents of /usr/share/man/ru/man1/artsmessage.1.gz start like this:

    .\"Generated by db2man.xsl. Don't modify this, modify the source.
    .de Sh \" Subsection
    .br
    .if t .Sp
    .ne 5
    .PP
    \fB\\$1\fR
    .PP
    ..
    .de Sp \" Vertical space (when we can't use .PP)
    .if t .sp .5v
    .if n .sp
    ..
    .de Ip \" List item
    .br
    .ie \\n(.$>=3 .ne \\$3
    .el .ne 3
    .IP "\\$1" \\$2
    ..
    .TH "ARTSMESSAGE" 1 "2003-03-07" "" ""
    .SH NAME
    artsmessage \- Утилита для &#1
    086;тображения со&
    #1086;бщений об оши&#107
    3;ках aRts
    .SH "SYNOPSIS"

I don't think this can work with groff.
Comment 3 Karl Eichwalder 2006-01-23 12:11:49 UTC 
I don't know whether db2man.xsl allowes setting the output encoding.  If it insists on spitting out character entities, you can try to postprocess the man page using recode:

    recode xml..koi8-r <artsmessage.1 >artsmessage.1-new
Comment 4 Mike Fabian 2006-01-23 12:44:00 UTC 
It seems to work for other languages for example
/usr/share/man/es/man1/artsmessage.1.gz is correctly encoded in iso-8859-1.
Comment 5 Mike Fabian 2006-01-23 12:48:12 UTC 
Same problem for all other Russian man-pages from kde3-i18n-ru.

All of the following man-pages use the HTML-entities:

mfabian@magellan:/usr/share/man/ru/man1$ rpm -ql kde3-i18n-ru | grep /usr/share/man
/usr/share/man/ru
/usr/share/man/ru/man1
/usr/share/man/ru/man1/artsmessage.1.gz
/usr/share/man/ru/man1/checkXML.1.gz
/usr/share/man/ru/man1/kappfinder.1.gz
/usr/share/man/ru/man1/po2xml.1.gz
/usr/share/man/ru/man1/quanta.1.gz
/usr/share/man/ru/man1/split2po.1.gz
/usr/share/man/ru/man1/swappo.1.gz
/usr/share/man/ru/man1/xml2pot.1.gz
/usr/share/man/ru/man6
/usr/share/man/ru/man6/kpat.6.gz
/usr/share/man/ru/man7
/usr/share/man/ru/man7/kdeoptions.7.gz
/usr/share/man/ru/man7/qtoptions.7.gz
mfabian@magellan:/usr/share/man/ru/man1$
Comment 6 Stephan Kulow 2006-02-03 13:10:50 UTC 
if I encode to utf-8 I miss all character, if I encode to koi8-r it looks broken here (in my utf-8 terminal). So it seems there is no easy solution -> care for that later
Comment 7 Mike Fabian 2006-02-03 15:56:31 UTC 
our groff package contains a workaround for man pages in UTF-8.

I.e. converting these man-pages to UTF-8 is OK. Coolo and me just
tested that this works.

Reassigning to me.
Comment 8 Mike Fabian 2006-02-16 11:48:05 UTC 
kde3-i18n packages with all man-pages converted to UTF-8 submitted
to NOARCH. Should be in the next beta.

Closing as FIXED.