From: oberhage@Uni-Duisburg-Essen.DE   
      
   Hello,   
      
   On 14.02.2026 17:28, Osamu Aoki wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   thanks!   
      
   > 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   
      
   For "unstable" help-de.txt has already been converted to UTF-8.   
   [aptitude 0.8.13-8]   
      
   And here are files converted by "recode" to UTF-8:   
     o mine-help-fi.txt mine-help-fr.txt   
      
   I did the same for   
     o help-zh_TW.txt   
      
   but am not able to tell, if this is correct or meaningful   
   text.   
      
   > 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,   
      
   Thanks again, and all the best,   
     Ruediger Oberhage   
   --   
   Dr. H.-R. Oberhage   
   Mail: Univ. Duisburg-Essen	E-Mail: oberhage@Uni-Duisburg-Essen.DE   
          Faculty of physics   
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