http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=367669 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=367669#c10 --- Comment #10 from Petr Gajdos 2009-12-17 10:00:59 UTC --- (In reply to comment #9)

No as the maintainer of the package man is not suitable for the manual pages of the package man-pages-cs.

comment #5 was actually question about man, not man-pages-cs, wasn't it?

To identify the encoding the manual page could include a) the nroff encoding for 8 bit characters or b) if using 8 bit characters give man the hint within in the first line of the manual page it self e.g.

'\" t -*- coding:UTF-8 -*-

the `t' is one of the possible preprocessors (see man(7)) and the comment in the first line starts with '\" and not with .\"

For the manual page /usr/share/man/cs/man1/false.1.gz I suggest the line

'\" -*- coding: ISO-8859-2 -*-

*but* AFAICS from factory the manual pages on 11.2 seems to be in UTF-8.

But note, this works with the text based manual pager `man'.

Does it really depend only on file (e. g. false.1.gz) itself? Without any change, man false or man -l /usr/share/man/cs/man1/false.1.gz respectively gives ---------------------8<------------------ .. JMÉNO false - nedělá nic, neúspěšně .. --------------------->8------------------ where encoding is right, but after cp /usr/share/man/cs/man1/false.1.gz . man -l false.1.gz I got ---------------------8<------------------ .. JMNO false - nedl nic, nespn .. --------------------->8------------------ which is obviously wrong. Both man and man -l (and konqueror too) seems to be behaving similarly when I add line

'\" -*- coding: ISO-8859-2 -*-

you suggest to the cs/man1/false.1. But this is maybe off topic little bit. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.