[Bug 248118] New: Special characters in man pages are not displayed decoded correctly
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=248118 Summary: Special characters in man pages are not displayed decoded correctly Product: openSUSE 10.2 Version: Final Platform: i686 OS/Version: SuSE Other Status: NEW Severity: Minor Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: webclark@rochester.rr.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Special characters embedded in man pages are not displayed correctly. For example, "man smb.conf" results in incorrect text: Any line beginning with a semicolon (“;”) or a hash (“#”) character is ignored, as are lines containing only whitespace. Any line ending in a “#8221; is continued on the next line in the customary UNIX fashion. Error messages are generated such as: Manual page smb.conf(5) line 1/usr/share/man/man5/smb.conf.5.gz:2976: warning: numeric expression expected (got `a') /usr/share/man/man5/smb.conf.5.gz:3010: warning: numeric expression expected (got `m') /usr/share/man/man5/smb.conf.5.gz:3010: warning [p 43, 10.3i]: cannot adjust line These show up on the first page, but also occur throughout the document. lines 1-53 /usr/share/man/man5/smb.conf.5.gz:2976: warning: numeric expression expected (got `a') /usr/share/man/man5/smb.conf.5.gz:3010: warning: numeric expression expected (got `m') /usr/share/man/man5/smb.conf.5.gz:3781: warning: numeric expression expected (got `m') /usr/share/man/man5/smb.conf.5.gz:3781: normal or special character expected (got a space) /usr/share/man/man5/smb.conf.5.gz:4147: cannot use a space as a starting delimiter /usr/share/man/man5/smb.conf.5.gz:4153: a space character is not allowed in an escape name /usr/share/man/man5/smb.conf.5.gz:4156: a space character is not allowed in an escape name /usr/share/man/man5/smb.conf.5.gz:4159: a space character is not allowed in an escape name /usr/share/man/man5/smb.conf.5.gz:4159: a space character is not allowed in an escape name /usr/share/man/man5/smb.conf.5.gz:4159: a space character is not allowed in an escape name /usr/share/man/man5/smb.conf.5.gz:4886: warning: numeric expression expected (got `S') /usr/share/man/man5/smb.conf.5.gz:4887: missing delimiter (got a space) /usr/share/man/man5/smb.conf.5.gz:4887: warning: numeric expression expected (got `A') I believe I have also seen this in stuff displayed by the KDE help center, but cannot seem to find an example so I expect that this is not actionable. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=248118 chrubis@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team- |werner@novell.com |screening@forge.provo.novell| |.com | -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=248118 werner@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |werner@novell.com AssignedTo|werner@novell.com |samba-maintainers@SuSE.de ------- Comment #1 from werner@novell.com 2007-02-23 06:47 MST ------- This is a problem of groff not of man. The utility man only uses groff and less to display manual pages. Beside the cause could also the wrong usage of nroff within the manual page of samba -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=248118 gd@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |DUPLICATE ------- Comment #2 from gd@novell.com 2007-02-26 01:57 MST ------- *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 245710 *** -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
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