[Pkg-mc-devel] Bug#706126: mc: Internal viewer fails to display UTF-8 man pages

[Robert Luberda]

Package: mc
Version: 3:4.8.5-1~exp5
Severity: normal
Tags: l10n

The internal mc viewer incorrectly displays UTF-8 man pages. For example
the /usr/share/man/pl/man8/apt.8.gz man page is displayed as:

  NAZWA
         apt - Zaawansowane narz.dzie zarz.dzania pakietami

  SK...ADNIA
         apt


whereas it should be: 

  NAZWA
         apt - Zaawansowane narzędzie zarządzania pakietami

  SKŁADNIA
         apt



I've just tried replacing all those `-Tlatin1' with `-Tutf8' in
/usr/lib/mc/ext.d/text.sh, but it didn't worked:


  NAZWA
         apt - Zaawansowane narzÄdzie zarzÄdzania pakietami

  SKÅADNIA
         apt


Regards,
robert

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (200, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.5-trunk-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages mc depends on:
ii  e2fslibs      1.42.5-1.1
ii  libc6         2.17-0experimental2
ii  libglib2.0-0  2.33.12+really2.32.4-5
ii  libgpm2       1.20.4-6
ii  libslang2     2.2.4-15
ii  libssh2-1     1.4.2-1.1
ii  mc-data       3:4.8.5-1~exp5

Versions of packages mc recommends:
ii  mime-support  3.52-2
ii  perl          5.14.2-21
ii  unzip         6.0-9

Versions of packages mc suggests:
ii  acroread [pdf-viewer]      9.5.4+dmo-dmo2
ii  arj                        3.10.22-10
ii  bzip2                      1.0.6-4
pn  catdvi | texlive-binaries  <none>
ii  dbview                     1.0.4-1
pn  djvulibre-bin              <none>
ii  epdfview [pdf-viewer]      0.1.8-3
ii  file                       1:5.11-3
pn  gv                         <none>
ii  imagemagick                8:6.7.7.10-5
ii  links                      2.7-1
pn  odt2txt                    <none>
ii  python                     2.7.3-4
pn  python-boto                <none>
pn  python-tz                  <none>
ii  w3m                        0.5.3-8
ii  xpdf [pdf-viewer]          3.03-10
ii  zip                        3.0-7

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/mc/mc.ext changed [not included]

-- no debconf information

-- debsums errors found:
debsums: changed file /usr/lib/mc/ext.d/text.sh (from mc package)