Hello Tobias, according to "git blame" you added the FIXME (or moved it, then it would be from Martin) in 2014. Can you say something for this FIXME (see below)? ----- Forwarded message from "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> ----- > Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 08:53:33 +0200 > From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> > To: Helge Kreutzmann <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx, linux-man@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Errors in man pages, here: charmap(5): Content > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.6.0 > > On 4/19/20 8:47 AM, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > > Dear manpages maintainers. > > the manpage-l10n project maintains a large number of translations of > > man pages both from a large variety of sources (including manpages) as > > well for a large variety of target languages. > > > > During their work translators notice different possible issues in the > > original (english) man pages. Sometiems this is a straightforward > > typo, sometimes a hard to read sentence, sometimes this is a convention > > not held up and sometimes we simply do not understand the original. > > > > We use several distributions as sources and update regularly (at > > least every 2 month). This means we are fairly recent (some > > distributions like archlinux also update frequently) but might miss > > the latest upstream version once a while, so the error might be > > already fixed. We apologize and ask you to close the issue immediately > > if this should be the case, but given the huge volume of projects and > > the very limited number of volunteers we are not able to double check > > each and every issue. > > > > Secondly we translators see the manpages in the neutral po format, > > i.e. converted and harmonized, but not the original source (be it man, > > groff, xml or other). So we cannot provide a true patch (where > > possible), but only an approximation which you need to translate into > > your source format. > > > > Finally the issues I'm reporting have accumulated over time and are > > not always discovered by me, so sometimes my description of the > > problem my be a bit limited - do not hesitate to ask so we can clarify > > them. > > > > I'm now reporting the errors for your project. As requested, each > > issue is sent in an unique mail for easier tracking on your side. If > > future reports should use another channel, please let me know. > > > > ** > > > > UTF-8 in Debian Squeeze: > > > > "is followed by the maximum number of bytes for a character. The default " > > "value is 1." > > I don't understand this report. Please elaborate. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Dr. Helge Kreutzmann debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Dipl.-Phys. http://www.helgefjell.de/debian.php 64bit GNU powered gpg signed mail preferred Help keep free software "libre": http://www.ffii.de/
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