Hoary: UTF-8 conversion. I think I experience minor problems

[Mario Vukelic]

Hi,

I "sidegraded" my install from Debian Sid to Hoary. Since Hoary uses
UTF-8 by default, I changed my locale settings in /etc/profile
and /etc/environment from LC_*=de_DE at euro to de_DE.UTF-8 at euro.

The Hoary release notes mention that Hoary "includes conversion
utilities", but since they don't say that the user would have to do
anything manually, I didn't do anything further :)

Well, so far nearly everything still works for me, except:

* In the syslog: I get complaints from perl, saying that setting locale
failed and that it falls back to default locale "C"

* In man pages: when there is an apostrophe or the kind of hyphen that
serves to wrap a word across a line break, I instead see three
rectangles in the text.
When I copy the rectangles and insert them on the console, it displays
"\uffff\uffff\uffff" instead

Are the release notes incomplete, and do I have to run some conversion
utility?