Colin,
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 07:00:08AM +1300, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 01:40:41PM +1300, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
>> >> Am I correct to assume that there should be analogous changes in all
>> >> of the other iso_8859-*.7 pages, so that each such page specifies its
>> >> specific locale at the top?
>> >
>> > Yes.
>>
>> Okay -- I've made the suggested changes for
>> iso_8859-{2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,13,14,15,16}.7. The changes will be
>> in upstream man-pages-3.20.
>
> Great, thanks.
>
>> Since a couple of releases ago (man-pages-3.18, downloadable at
>> http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ ), we have a few other character
>> set pages in section 7. These are:
>>
>> armscii-8.7 (Armenian SCII)
>> cp1251.7
>> koi8-r.7 (Russian Net CS)
>> koi8-u.7 (Ukrainien Net CS)
>>
>> Are analogous changes also needed for these?
>
> Yes. If you set the appropriate coding for these (simply the capitalised
> versions of the page names) then almost everything works with the
> current version of man-db in Debian unstable: I made the appropriate
> changes to man-pages-3.19 and tested this.
>
> The only thing that breaks is that input character codes 0x80-0x9f are
> reserved for internal use by groff, so the corresponding ranges of the
> CP1251, KOI8-R, and KOI8-U character sets fail to display; however, you
> can't do any better than this with the current groff package in Debian,
> and the rest of those character sets and all of ARMSCII-8 display
> perfectly as far as I can tell.
>
> Once we switch to a version of groff with preconv support, this problem
> will go away; indeed, I've tested with Debian man-db 2.5.4-2 and a local
> build of groff 1.20.1, and the entirety of all four character ranges is
> displayed perfectly.
I AM IN AWE of the thoroughness of your testing and written responses
on this bug. It is so helpful! Thank you.
I've fixed the other 4 pages (again, to appear in man-pages-3.20).
Cheers,
Michael
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