Hi
It looks right but I do see 3 warnings:
:troff: man7/groff_char.7:1051: warning: can't find special character 'bs'
troff: man7/groff_char.7:1192: warning: can't find special character
'radicalex'
troff: man7/groff_char.7:1195: warning: can't find special character
'sqrtex'
For example, in the Arrows section I see:
Arrows
l l l l lx. Output Input PostScript Unicode Notes _
← \[<-] arrowleft u2190 horizontal arrow left +
→ \[->] arrowright u2192 horizontal arrow right +
↔ \[<>] arrowboth u2194 T{ horizontal arrow in both direc‐
tions T} ↓ \[da] arrowdown u2193 vertical arrow down +
↑ \[ua] arrowup u2191 vertical arrow up +
↕ \[va] arrowupdn u2195 T{ vertical arrow in both
directions
T} ⇐ \[lA] arrowdblleft u21D0 horizontal double arrow
left
⇒ \[rA] arrowdblright u21D2 horizontal double arrow right
⇔ \[hA] arrowdblboth u21D4 T{ horizontal double arrow in
(hopefully this renders right in the forum - it looks right in my email
editor).
Also - with 'man --locale=ja vim' I see the first 3 lines as:
VIM(1)
General Commands Manual
VIM(1)
名前
vim - Vi IMproved, プログラマのテキストエディタ
This doesn't work if I don't default to UTF-8 because man ends up losing
information mapping to single-byte
I wrote a short blog also on 'man' (and libiconv!):
https://makingdeveloperslivesbetter.wordpress.com/2023/05/29/the-wonderful-world-of-man-uals/
and this change being discussed is what gets me to proper UTF-8 rendering
(although perhaps there is a better way to fix this)
Thanks, mike
On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 5:26 AM Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> wrote:
> Mike Fulton wrote:
> > I would like to request the __MVS__ macro be added so that z/OS will
> > default to UTF-8, e.g.
> >
> > # if (defined __APPLE__ && defined __MACH__) || defined __BEOS__ ||
> defined
> > __HAIKU__ || defined __MVS__
> > codeset = "UTF-8";
> > # else
>
> This doesn't seem right. I understand from [1] that the primary ASCII-
> compatible encoding on z/OS is ISO-8859-1, not UTF-8.
>
> > I am currently using this patch for man-db so that it can correctly
> render
> > UTF-8 man pages.
>
> man-db relies on groff, and consists of several programs. It's likely that
> one of these programs needs a modification.
>
> Does "groff -Tutf8 -mandoc man7/groff_char.7 | less -R" (in a UTF-8
> console)
> produce good-looking output? If yes, then the problem is likely in the
> man-db
> package, otherwise in the groff package.
>
> Bruno
>
> [1]
> https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.2.0?topic=functions-e2a-s-convert-string-from-ebcdic-ascii
>
>
>
>
