Bug 165249

National characters are not displaying properly ( or not displaying at all, depending on $LANG ) when viewed with man.

$ LESSCHARSET="UTF-8" PAGER=less LANG="de_DE.UTF-8" man -d man
-- Using architecture: amd64:amd64
-- Using pager: less
-- Using manual sections: 1:1aout:8:2:3:n:4:5:6:7:9:l
-- Searching PATH for man directories
--   Adding /usr/local/man to manpath
--   Adding /usr/share/man to manpath
-- Adding default manpath entries
--   Adding /usr/share/openssl/man to manpath
-- Parsing config file: /usr/local/etc/man.d/perl5.14.2.conf
--   Adding /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.14.2/man to manpath
--   Adding /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.14.2/perl/man to manpath
-- Parsing config file: /usr/local/etc/man.d/pl-man-doc.conf
-- Using manual path: /usr/local/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/share/openssl/man:/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.14.2/man:/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.14.2/perl/man
-- Using locale paths: de_DE.UTF-8:de.UTF-8:de:en.UTF-8:.
-- Using standard page width
-- Searching for man
--     Found manpage /usr/local/man/de/man1/man.1
--     Skipping catpage: not found or old
-- Command: /usr/bin/zcat -f /usr/local/man/de/man1/man.1 | tbl | groff -S -P-h -Wall -mtty-char -man -Tascii -P-c | less

How-To-Repeat: Try browsing preinstalled manpages for different languages. For example:
LANG="de_DE.UTF-8" man man
LANG="fr_FR.UTF-8" man man