From: osamu@debian.org   
      
   Hi,   
      
   I find the same problem quite annoying, too.   
      
   Very simple patch as below solved this problem for the most annoying part of   
   this bug.   
      
   But as I see the source, there are few more places to be fixed and also change   
   encoding of text data.   
      
   help-zh_TW.txt is not in UTF-8 (help-zh_CN.txt is in UTF-8)   
   help-de.txt is latin1   
      
   I don't see any one working on this on salsa.   
   https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/aptitude/-/merge_requests   
      
      
   Let me make a fork and send MR via salsa when I find a time.   
      
   ---   
      
   Description: README is UTF-8   
    aptitude (0.8.13-7.1) unstable; urgency=medium   
    .   
      * Non-maintainer upload.   
      * UTF-8   
   Author: Osamu Aoki    
      
   --- aptitude-0.8.13.orig/src/ui.cc   
   +++ aptitude-0.8.13/src/ui.cc   
   @@ -1181,13 +1181,13 @@ static void do_help_readme()   
      // Look up the translation of README.   
      // TRANSLATORS: You can translate README and set the filename here.   
      std::string readme_file = ssprintf(HELPDIR "/%s", P_("Localized   
   file|README"));   
   -  const char *encoding    = P_("Encoding of README|ISO_8859-1");   
   +  const char *encoding    = P_("Encoding of README|UTF-8");   
       
      // Deal with missing localized docs.   
      if(access(readme_file.c_str(), R_OK)!=0)   
        {   
          readme_file = HELPDIR "/README";   
   -      encoding    = "ISO_8859-1";   
   +      encoding    = "UTF-8";   
        }   
       
      setup_fileview(readme_file,   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)