Bug#401089: perltw.1.gz: add viewing instructions

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 12:36:51AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Package: perl-doc
> Version: 5.8.8-6.1
> Severity: minor
> File: /usr/share/man/man1/perltw.1.gz
> 
> You had better put instructions near the top of this man page in
> English as to how to view this man page. I couldn't view it properly
> in a big5 environment.
> 
> One will get lots of e.g.,
> /tmp/zmanNxBZEj:243: warning: can't find special character `u5BA4'
> 
> In a utf-8 environment, I was successful with
> zcat `man -w perltw`|iconv -f big5 -t utf-8|nroff -man|less
> 
> Actually the bug is probably in the Debian man system,
> as zcat `man -w perltw`|man2html > n.html; w3m n.html works fine,
> in a big5 environment.
> 
> Also check perlcn, perljp, perlko.

I suspect that this is now fixed, as there have been several
improvements to related subsystems since this bug was reported, but
can you confirm?

Thanks,
Dominic.

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