Indeed, from the build log:
+ for src in 'msgs/mess.[a-z][a-z]'
++ sed 's/^.*codeset=//' msgs/mess.de.codeset
+ charset=iso-8859-1
+ iconv -t utf-8 -f iso-8859-1 -o msgs/mess.de.utf msgs/mess.de
+ mv msgs/mess.de.utf msgs/mess.de
+ echo '$ codeset=utf-8'

However the file is already utf-8. 

Fixed in SVN (will be submitted after the release freeze is over).

Correction, not fixed in SVN yet, SVN commit access is still blocked... I'll have to wait.

@ Oliver

Do you know a German padawan who could fix this?

Cauldron and 1 both have man version 1.6g-2.mga1 atm

Setting Mga release version to cauldron, it feels a bit OTT (over the top ;) ) to have two separate bug reports about this issue for cauldron and for stable.

CC: (none) => marja11, oliver.bgr
Version: 1 => Cauldron

Fixed for 1 and cauldron.
Mga1 submitted to updates_testing.

Please test on Mga1.

Assignee: oliver.bgr => qa-bugs

# urpmi locales-de

$ echo $LANG
en_GB.utf8

$ export LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
$ echo $LANG
de_DE.UTF-8

$ man does-not-exist
No manual entry for does-not-exist

I think it should be utf8, not UTF-8? It doesn't seem to make any difference though :\

$ export LANG=de_DE.utf8
$ echo $LANG
de_DE.utf8

$ man does-not-exist
No manual entry for does-not-exist

Am I missing something?

On i586 it's working with German locales now. I don't know, what would be needed to test on a system with other locale settings.

I can't get man to speak English.

Not sure what I'm doing wrong but I can only get it to speak English.

$ export LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
$ export LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8
$ locale
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8

]$ man does-not-exist
No manual entry for does-not-exist

]$ LC_ALL=c man does-not-exist
No manual entry for does-not-exist

]$ LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8 man does-not-exist
No manual entry for does-not-exist

Then we need another German tester, e.g. the original reporter.
I'm putting a few Germans in cc.

Please update the package man in Mageia 1 to the version in updates_testing and see if a "man does-not-exist" gives an answer with correct umlauts.

Thanks

CC: (none) => detlefschmidt, molch.b, p.grun, sebixmag, sigrid.carrera, tvl83

Tested yet on a up-to-date Mageia 1 i586:

$ man dawdawd
Keine Handbuchseite für dawdawd

What more information should I provide?

Regards,
TeaAge

$ rpm -qa|grep man
man-pages-de-0.5-8.mga1
man-1.6g-2.1.mga1
----------
$ man dawdad
$ man dawdad
Keine Handbuchseite für dawdad
----------

Fixed with man-1.6g-2.1.mga1 on a 64-bit Mageia 1 after including core updates testing.

Thanks wobo!

Thorsten, the updated man package is in Core Updates Testing.

To enable it use

 drakrpm-edit-media --expert

as root.

Remember to disable it afterwards though.

Thanks

TeaAge, which version of man do you have installed? The one from updates_testing?
Then those wrecked  umlaut shouldn't be there any more.

Wobo, thanks.

Oliver

Testing repos are and were activated.
$ rpm -qa | grep man
man-pages-de-0.5-8.mga1
man-1.6g-2.mga1
man-pages-3.32-2.mga1

Wrecked umlaut on konsole as well as tty. As user as well as root.

Regards,
TeaAge

The updated package is man-1.6g-2.1.mga1

Try to update the testing media, it should show as an update then.

Do you have testing media set as 'update' media?

Ok, after I manually updated the repo, the new package was visible.
After updating it, the output looks fine:

"Keine Handbuchseite für dawda"

Regards,
TeaAge

Thankyou TeaAge :)

Update validated.

Advisory
------------------
This updated man package fixes as issue where umlauts were displayed incorrectly in German locales.
------------------

SRPM: man-1.6g-2.1.mga1.src.rpm

Could sysadmin please push from core/updates_testing to core/updates

Thankyou!

Keywords: (none) => validated_update
CC: (none) => sysadmin-bugs
Hardware: i586 => All
Version: Cauldron => 1

Thanks TeaAge :)

Update pushed.

Status: ASSIGNED => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => tmb
Resolution: (none) => FIXED