[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#321572: man: uses non-utf8 character for trademark symbol

[Paul Wise]

Package: xmlto
Version: 0.0.18-5
Severity: minor

My docbook manual page contains the following line:

  <!ENTITY debian    "<productname>Debian</productname>">

Fairly standard in debian packages. When I convert my manpage to man
format using "xmlto man", it results in the following content, which
causes the following lintian warning.

------------problem content-----------------------------------------------------------
.SH "AUTHOR"

.PP
This manual page was written by Paul Wise <pabs3 at bonedaddy\&.net> for the Debian™ system\&.

.SH AUTHOR
Paul Wise.
------------lintian warning-----------------------------------------------------------
W: nsis: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man1/makensis.1.gz /tmp/zman5xtaJq:37: warning: can't find numbered character 226
N:
N:   This man page provokes warnings or errors from man.
N:
N:   "can't find numbered character" usually means latin1 etc in the input,
N:   and this warning indicates characters will be missing from the output.
N:   You can change to escapes like \[:a] described on the groff_char man
N:   page.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This is because of the non-utf8 trademark character after "Debian". The
trademark symbol could arguably be removed, since not all products are
trademarked.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages xmlto depends on:
ii  debianutils                   2.14.1     Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  docbook-xml                   4.4-4      standard XML documentation system,
ii  docbook-xsl                   1.68.1-0.1 stylesheets for processing DocBook
ii  libc6                         2.3.5-3    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libpaper-utils                1.1.14-3   Library for handling paper charact
ii  libxml2-utils                 2.6.20-1   XML utilities
ii  sgml-base                     1.26       SGML infrastructure and SGML catal
ii  xsltproc                      1.1.14-1   XSLT command line processor

xmlto recommends no packages.

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