[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#499863: sysv-rc: update-rc.d(8) french manpage badly encoded

[Tanguy Ortolo]

Package: sysv-rc
Version: 2.86.ds1-61
Severity: minor
Tags: patch l10n

Hello,

The accentuated letters in french manpage for update-rc.d(8) were
displayed as pairs of letters, corresponding to their the two octets of
their UTF-8 representation interpreted as two latin-1 characters.  For
instance, “démarrer” (with A tile, copyright) was displayed instead
of “démarrer” (with e acute).

The manpage update-rc.d.8 was encoded in UTF-8, with some errors. The
package rules installed it under /usr/share/man/fr/man8/, and I found
that there, it was interpreted by man(1) as being encoded in latin-1,
according to the FHS requirements. I thought it was preferable to
install it in /usr/share/man/fr.UTF-8/man8/, where it gets interpreted
as what it is, UTF-8.

I also corrected some errors in the UTF-8 encoding of this manpages:
every ‘è’ (e grave) character was coded as a ‘ŕ’ (r acute), for
instance. That looked like a latin-1 text interpreted as a russian
encoding which name I cannot remember, before being converted to UTF-8.

Regards,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

sysv-rc depends on no packages.

Versions of packages sysv-rc recommends:
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-20     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

Versions of packages sysv-rc suggests:
pn  bum                           <none>     (no description available)
pn  sysv-rc-conf                  <none>     (no description available)

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