On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Noèl Köthe wrote:
OK, but then its a problem/bug of man and/or the pager IMHO and this should be fixed and not the manpage itself. The problem should be fixed and not worked around this bug with changing the manpage. Why do you prefer to change the content and not the viewer?
I copy below what Colin wrote to me. In brief, UTF-8 content is not currently supported.
"With some exceptions for Far Eastern languages, manual pages should not at present be encoded using UTF-8. I do regard this as a bug, and I have a transition plan for making it work - some of whose initial steps you've seen in man-db's changelog - but it will involve manual pages encoded in other than the legacy encoding being installed in a separate directory, policy changes to go along with this, and some bug fixes (for bugs I know about which don't need to be filed). As such, it's reasonable to file bugs against packages attempting to use UTF-8 where it is not yet supported."
I hope that explains things. -- http://rrt.sc3d.org/ | wisdom, n. knowing when to be foolish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
