On Tue, 12 Nov 2013 19:54:04 +0100, Agustin Martin wrote: > > > Note that you are changing way more things that needed, including strings > > > that are explicitly in a given charset, which is wrong. > > That was on purpose ... > I mean that it included parts of the code, making it no longer work as > expected (yes, that is about old features). If script is changed to UTF-8 > these unibyte strings need to be rewritten with escapes to stay unibyte > (hope this will work), not changed to UTF8.
Oh, now I understand, thanks. > > Anyway, that's why I prefer to have POD in UTF-8 and call pod2man > > with --utf8. > Thanks for the info. I later noticed pod2man misbehavior about this, but I > could not try harder. Also tried to unsuccessfully use POD escapes to > make it more portable. No luck. If you need a real expert here, Russ is the one to ask. I also never groked all the details. > I will have a look at this (I once wrote ispellaff2myspell). Now I think the > best is to change script to UTF8, but keep strings in code as escaped octal. > Or rewrite that part. > Let me think about this. Hope to find time tomorrow. Sure, whatever suits you :) Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage: http://info.comodo.priv.at/ - OpenPGP key 0xBB3A68018649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, and developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Police: Wrapped Around Your Finger
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