Re: makemandb errors from pkgsrc

[Iain Hibbert <plunky%rya-online.net@localhost>]

On Tue, 6 Mar 2012, Dave Huang wrote:

> makemandb: Error in indexing /usr/share/man/man7/groff_mmse.7
>
> OK, so there's an error. What's the error? Maybe if it told me what the
> problem was, I could try to fix it. The page is Swedish--is that the problem?
> If so, there's nothing I can do about that--Swedish is a fine language, and I
> think the Swedes should be allowed to have manpages too :)

Ha yes, that is mostly the non-ASCII characters embedded in the source, I
think mandoc_char(7) lists how to use them properly though if its worth it
I don't know (are we anticipating a groff removal event 'soon' ?)

iain