On 09/01/2005 Stephen Gran wrote: > AFAIK (and I already said my knowledge on this subject is fairly > limited, correct me if I'm wrong) this is only relevant for high-bit > characters, outside of ASCII 0-127, right? Does the manpage (or any > component of the packaging for that matter) use any high-bit characters? > A quick look says no. So if I understand right, ASCII 0-127 == utf-8, > practically speaking. It would only make a difference if I used a > character >=128, AIUI. If I am wrong, please feel free to correct me. > I mean, it seems easy enough to put > \# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- > at the top of the man page, but I am reluctant to make changes for what > seems like no reason, if you follow.
ok, i was wrong, sorry for confusion. i finally got that it's not policy to have utf8 manpages, but it's still appreciated. hyphens for instance look terrible in the dvdbackup manpage on my utf8 console. feel free to close the bug as soon as the other too minor issues are fixed ... bye jonas
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