[Bug 175459] nroff outputs warning about character encoding on stdout

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Brett Ryan <brett.ryan at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #18 from Brett Ryan <brett.ryan at gmail.com> 2011-08-01 22:49:24 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> JW, the characters "XXX" are used only to highlight the warning message and have
> no special meaning. The warning message is emitted just to ensure that all the
> man pages are correctly converted to UTF-8 because all the man pages should use
> universal encoding at the time. Since there's no precise way how to detect a
> particular encoding of a man page, some assumptions about encoding are made, but
> they're not needed when all the man pages are in UTF-8.

Why should an end user be informed of this? Shouldn't this be something package
maintainers need to worry about? This warning is missleading and has no benefit
to any end user unless you are a package maintainer.

> If you see such a warning, please check to which package the man page belongs
> (rpm -qf /path/to/man/page) and report it as a new bug against this package. You
> can Cc me on the bug so that I can react.

Again, why would an end user be responsible for reporting these fixes? As an
RHEL customer I would expect that an upgrade would not result in half our man
pages to suddenly contain this warning at the start.

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