help2man is built without NLS support (changing this would require adjusting flags in help2man and adding an RDEP on p5-Locale-gettext) Index: src/Makefile.in --- src/Makefile.in.orig +++ src/Makefile.in @@ -2412,7 +2412,6 @@ recode.1: main.c $(top_srcdir)/configure.ac recode$(EX $(AM_V_GEN)if ( touch $@.w && rm -f $@.w; ) >/dev/null 2>&1; then \ $(top_builddir)/build-aux/x-to-1 \ $(PERL) $(HELP2MAN) \ - --locale=en_US.UTF-8 \ ./recode$(EXEEXT) recode.x $@; \ fi