I think following is an old upstream bug, cause IIRC I've seen that ever since I started with Gentoo few years ago. I'm using pl_PL.UTF-8 locale. In example, for PLEASE_WAIT, man displays: Formatowanie strony, proszê czekaæ... instead of: Formatowanie strony, proszę czekać... The message file (msgs/mess.pl) is encoded correctly: `cat mess.pl | iconv -f latin2 |less` shows that everything should be OK.
OK, I've verified it. It is an upstream bug. Even more so, it probably affects ALL utf8 locales. The story: man does not use gettext and it's message files are simply results of gencat on text files in pre-utf8 encodings. As such they probably work correctly in non-utf8 locales, but display incorrectly in the utf8 ones. To test it, I converted mess.pl to utf8, ran the commands from the Makefile on it and after install, checked output of 'man --help' (as it's affected too). It displayed correctly.
*** Bug 257939 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 296495 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 126361 ***
"messages of man"!="content of manpages" In no way a duplicate bug 126361. This is sys-apps/man only, no change in groff will affect it.
Seems to me that this bug is duplicate to this bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93664
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 93664 ***
