[Bug 1108519] Re: ubuntu patch 14_html2text_preferred encodes README in UTF-8 without updating metadata

[Simon Quigley]

Is this still a bug, or has it been fixed?

I am asking because this is dated 2013.

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Title:
  ubuntu patch 14_html2text_preferred encodes README in UTF-8 without
  updating metadata

Status in aptitude package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Package: aptitude
  Version: 0.6.8-1ubuntu1

  When viewed online [Help > User's Manual], the English README file
  contains numerous character encoding errors.

  The file doc/html-to-text converts a html document to text in a
  particular encoding.  The ubuntu patch 14_html2text_preferred ignores
  the specified encoding and outputs all text documents in UTF-8.  When
  viewing these files online the encoding is determined by various
  /translated/ strings in the programs source that are not updated by
  the patch.

  UTF-8 is not equivalent with ISO_8859-1.

  The binary package aptitude-common contains a file README, generated
  at build time using html-to-text with a /requested encoding/ of
  ISO_8859-1.  At run time this same encoding is specified at
  src/ui.cc:1126.  The ubuntu patch causes this file to be encoded in
  UTF-8 without updating the metadata, causing the encoding problems for
  C and other locales that use this particular file.

  14_html2text_preferred must either: respect the requested encoding; or
  update the program so that the online viewer does not use the wrong
  encoding.

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