Re: UTF-8 man pages

2007-09-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 09:24:32PM +0100, David Given wrote: > I'm trying to package a simple tool that wants a Japanese string in its man > page. It would appear that currently, man pages use fixed encodings that vary > depending on which locale's man page is being looked up; English uses > ISO-88

Re: UTF-8 man pages

2007-08-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Steinar H. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 09:09:07AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: >>> For HTML if Japanese text is short, embeding gif/png file is better >>> than using UTF-8 characters. Then you can read it from any >>> c

Re: UTF-8 man pages

2007-08-12 Thread Russ Allbery
"Steinar H. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 09:09:07AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: >> For HTML if Japanese text is short, embeding gif/png file is better >> than using UTF-8 characters. Then you can read it from any >> configuration. > ...except a text-mode one? My

Re: UTF-8 man pages

2007-08-11 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 09:09:07AM +0900, Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 06:10:53PM +0100, David Given wrote: > > Roger Leigh wrote: > > [...] > > > I would personally like to see this happen, but until it does we are > > > limited (I believe) to the glyphs

Re: UTF-8 man pages

2007-08-11 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 09:09:07AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > For HTML if Japanese text is short, embeding gif/png file is better than > using UTF-8 characters. Then you can read it from any configuration. ...except a text-mode one? /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ -- To UNSU

Re: UTF-8 man pages

2007-08-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 06:10:53PM +0100, David Given wrote: > Roger Leigh wrote: > [...] > > I would personally like to see this happen, but until it does we are > > limited (I believe) to the glyphs described in groff_char(7). I am > > not aware of any Japanese support at all except in spec

Re: UTF-8 man pages

2007-08-11 Thread David Given
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roger Leigh wrote: [...] > I would personally like to see this happen, but until it does we are > limited (I believe) to the glyphs described in groff_char(7). I am > not aware of any Japanese support at all except in specially-patched > versions. I

Re: UTF-8 man pages

2007-08-11 Thread Roger Leigh
David Given <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to package a simple tool that wants a Japanese string in its man > page. It would appear that currently, man pages use fixed encodings that vary > depending on which locale's man page is being looked up; English uses > ISO-8859-1, so it's not po

UTF-8 man pages

2007-08-10 Thread David Given
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm trying to package a simple tool that wants a Japanese string in its man page. It would appear that currently, man pages use fixed encodings that vary depending on which locale's man page is being looked up; English uses ISO-8859-1, so it's not