Bug 96055

Comment 1 Remko Lodder 2006-04-19 18:44:21 UTC

Fernan Aguero wrote:
>> Number:         96055
>> Category:       docs
>> Synopsis:       iconv man page refers to missing locale(7) man page
>> Confidential:   no
>> Severity:       non-critical
>> Priority:       low
>> Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>> State:          open
>> Quarter:        
>> Keywords:       
>> Date-Required:
>> Class:          doc-bug
>> Submitter-Id:   current-users
>> Arrival-Date:   Wed Apr 19 16:40:15 GMT 2006
>> Closed-Date:
>> Last-Modified:
>> Originator:     Fernan Aguero
>> Release:        FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE-p4 i386
>> Organization:
> IIB-UNSAM
>> Environment:
> 
> System: FreeBSD omega.iib.unsam.edu.ar 6.0-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE-p4 #0: Wed Jan 25 12:43:39 ART 2006 fernan@omega.iib.unsam.edu.ar:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/OMEGA i386
> 
> 	
>> Description:
> 	
> 
> 	When reading the iconv(1) man page, one is referred to the
> 	locale(7) man page, which doesn't exist (at least on my system).
> 
> 	From iconv(1):
> 
> 	SEE ALSO
>        		iconv_open(3), locale(7)
> 
> 	GNU                January 13, 2002       ICONV(1)
>        [fernan@omega] man 7 locale
>        No entry for locale in section 7 of the manual
> 
>> How-To-Repeat:
> 	
> 	
>        [fernan@omega] man 7 locale
> 	
>> Fix:
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> 
> 
>> Release-Note:
>> Audit-Trail:
>> Unformatted:

Hi,

Please keep in mind that iconv is contributed code from another
supplier of the data.  If he wrote the manual page with a local
locale(7).  I think we are not to 'blame' for this. However, it
might be interesting to poke the iconv maintainer(s).

We have a locale(1)...  Perhaps this is more a ports issue in the
end..

cheers,
Remko

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Comment 2 Simon L. B. Nielsen 2006-04-19 18:54:31 UTC

On 2006.04.19 13:34:09 -0300, Fernan Aguero wrote:
> 
> 	When reading the iconv(1) man page, one is referred to the
> 	locale(7) man page, which doesn't exist (at least on my system).


We cannot do much about this since iconv is in the ports collection.
It's not really a bug that we don't have a locale(7), the bug is that
iconv(1) refers to it (probably because it exists on Linux).

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen

Comment 3 Remko Lodder 2006-04-21 22:03:00 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

I am sorry, iconv is contributed code which we cannot 
change.  Please inform the authors of iconv so that 
this 'might' get changed. 

Close the PR since FreeBSD cannot do anything about 
this.