191488 – Localized man pages (UTF8, Chinese) do not properly display

Bug 191488 - Localized man pages (UTF8, Chinese) do not properly display

Summary: Localized man pages (UTF8, Chinese) do not properly display

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 121502

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Reported:	2007-09-06 12:12 UTC by garyyuen
Modified:	2007-09-06 15:58 UTC (History)
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Description garyyuen 2007-09-06 12:12:18 UTC

After installing, app-i18n/man-pages-zh_CN, the man pages do not properly display. It seems that the included version of groff does not properly handle UTF-8. When running man by itself, the following error occurs:

Cannot open the message catalog "man" for locale "zh_CN.UTF8"
(NLSPATH="<none>")

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge app-i18n/man-pages-zh_CN
2. set your local to zh_CN.UTF8
3. try viewing any man page in Chinese

Actual Results:  
man page does not properly display. 

Expected Results:  
Should see man pages in Chinese characters.

Comment 1 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-09-06 13:43:55 UTC

Could you try with Groff 1.20_pre*, which is available in Eaedificāta Repository?
http://www.ffta.host.sk/Eaedificata/index.html

The appropriate setting in /etc/man.conf should be:
NROFF    /usr/bin/preconv | /usr/bin/nroff -c -mandoc

Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-09-06 15:58:45 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 121502 ***