[Debconf-devel] Bug#492368: debconf-i18n: Encoding problems with German man pages

[Helge Kreutzmann]

Package: debconf-i18n
Version: 1.5.23
Severity: normal

The German man pages have several encoding errors (at least in a ppc and 
x86 sid changeroot). They seem to be coming from the addendum. Note
that I for some reason do not have umlauts in my chroots (don't ask me
why), but man happily resolves them to the proper alternative (e.g. ä
-> ae). 

Example for the error:
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 man debconf
Scroll to bottom:

       Sie koennten auch das Folgende verwenden:

        debconf --frontend=readline sh -x mein-Shell-Programm

SIEHE AUCH
       debconf-devel(7), debconf(7)

AUTOR
       Joey Hess <joeyh at debian.org>

       Die deutsche A~Xbersetzung wurde 2008 von Helge Kreutzmann
       <debian at helgefjell.de> angefertigt. Diese A~Xbersetzung ist Freie
       Dokumentation; lesen Sie die GNU General Public License Version 2 oder
       neuer fA~Xr die Kopierbedingungen.  Es gibt KEINE HAFTUNG.

In the first line, the transcription is right (könnten -> koennten), but 
below "AUTOR" note that suddenly strange transliterations occur: Ü and
ü become A~X.

below the man page you'll see:
POD ERRORS
       Hey! The above document had some coding errors, which are explained
       below:

       Around line 80:
           Unknown directive: =HEAD1

Another example is debconf-communicate.

If this is the same as #485756 (which I am not sure) please merge.

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