Handling charset problems with nroff and UTF-8

man-pages-fr-3.40.1.ebuild (text/plain), 817 bytes, created by Fred Passerin on 2012-06-08 11:59:21 UTC

# Copyright 1999-2012 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: $

DESCRIPTION="A somewhat comprehensive collection of french Linux man pages"
HOMEPAGE="http://traduc.org/perkamon"
SRC_URI="http://alioth.debian.org/frs/download.php/3722/${P}.tar.bz2"

LICENSE="freedist"
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 s390 sh sparc x86 ~x86-linux"
IUSE=""

RDEPEND="virtual/man"
DEPEND=""

src_compile() { :; }

src_install() {
    # nroff doesn't deal correctly with UTF-8
    einfo "Converting man-pages from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1"

    for f in fr/*/*
        do iconv -c -f UTF-8 -t ISO-8859-1 $f -o $f.iso || die "iconv failed for $f"
        mv $f.iso $f
    done

    dodoc fr/README.fr
    doman -i18n=fr fr/man*/* || die "doman failed"
}