Re: UTF-8 manual pages

2007-10-12 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: > > I don't much like any of the switch ideas, since they would probably > > not be able to express all possible collections of man pages (given > > debhelper's current command line parser). The manpage:encoding idea > > could work, but might have ambiguity issues with man pages

Re: UTF-8 manual pages

2007-10-12 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 01:41:49PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 12:42:49PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > The manpage:encoding idea could work, but might have ambiguity issues > > with man pages with colons in their name > > I think that's solvable by taking the las

Re: UTF-8 manual pages

2007-10-12 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 12:22:18PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > I have uploaded man-db 2.5.0-1, which includes the following changes of > note: [...] > > groff does not yet support UTF-8 input, so at the moment this is > implemented by recoding in man. For the time being, the implementation > req

Re: UTF-8 manual pages

2007-10-12 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 12:03:56PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 08:51:31AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > I assume UTF-8 / local-encoding detection can fail sometimes; which > > encoding has precedence? > > You're right, it can. It's much more likely that a random non-UTF

Re: UTF-8 manual pages

2007-10-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 08:51:31AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Hi, > > o Per-locale directory handling has been improved. Directories such > > as "fr.UTF-8" may be used for occasions when it is appropriate to > > specify the character set but not the country, and so a

Re: UTF-8 manual pages

2007-10-12 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 12:42:49PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > The manpage:encoding idea could work, but might have ambiguity issues > with man pages with colons in their name I think that's solvable by taking the last colon. I don't think encodings have colons in them. -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho

Re: UTF-8 manual pages

2007-10-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 12:42:49PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > I don't much like any of the switch ideas, since they would probably > not be able to express all possible collections of man pages (given > debhelper's current command line parser). The manpage:encoding idea > could work, but might have

Re: UTF-8 manual pages

2007-10-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 10:00:21AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 11 octobre 2007 à 12:22 +0100, Colin Watson a écrit : > > My original plan was that UTF-8 manual pages should be installed in > > /usr/share/man/.UTF-8/ (unless your language is Chinese or > > Portuguese, just use the lang

Re: UTF-8 manual pages

2007-10-12 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 11 octobre 2007 à 12:22 +0100, Colin Watson a écrit : > My original plan was that UTF-8 manual pages should be installed in > /usr/share/man/.UTF-8/ (unless your language is Chinese or > Portuguese, just use the language code, not the country code, so for > example French manual pages woul

Re: UTF-8 manual pages

2007-10-11 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > o Per-locale directory handling has been improved. Directories such > as "fr.UTF-8" may be used for occasions when it is appropriate to > specify the character set but not the country, and so a full > locale name is inconvenient. > > o There is

Re: UTF-8 manual pages

2007-10-11 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: > Once we have a consensus on install locations, dh_installman should IMO > be changed to do the recoding automatically; to do this, it needs to be > told the source encoding. Joey, what do you think is the best way to do > this? Options that come to mind are: > > * --languag