> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 05:55:52PM -0400, Federico Lucifredi wrote:
>> On Sep 26, 2013, at 4:32 AM, Colin Watson wrote:
>>> Or use man-db instead, which is much smarter about character encodings
>>> and handles your situation out of the box with no configuration
>>> required; I just tested it t
Op 27-9-2013 11:30, Colin Watson schreef:
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 09:58:04PM +0200, Erwin Waterlander wrote:
I'm curious to know how man-db determines the encoding of the man
page. I cannot find that information. Would you like to explain how
man-db does the encoding detecion?
Certainly. man-d
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 09:58:04PM +0200, Erwin Waterlander wrote:
> I'm curious to know how man-db determines the encoding of the man
> page. I cannot find that information. Would you like to explain how
> man-db does the encoding detecion?
Certainly. man-db contains a table of the typical legac
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 05:55:52PM -0400, Federico Lucifredi wrote:
> On Sep 26, 2013, at 4:32 AM, Colin Watson wrote:
> > Or use man-db instead, which is much smarter about character encodings
> > and handles your situation out of the box with no configuration
> > required; I just tested it to co
On Sep 26, 2013, at 4:32 AM, Colin Watson wrote:
>> Assuming that the problem is caused by `-p', a possible solution is to
>> not use this man option or environment variable and add option `-t' to
>> nroff in `/etc/man.conf'.
>
> Or use man-db instead, which is much smarter about character enco
I will look at this during the weekend and get back to you. It should not be
difficult with Werner's comments.
When you first raised this, you were ahead of the curve. Fixing it then was
harder than it is today... Time to get it done.
Best-F
Sent from my iPhone
> On Sep 26, 2013, at 3:43 PM,
Sorry guys, traveling till Sunday. Will comment then.
Best-F
Sent from my iPhone
> On Sep 26, 2013, at 3:43 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>
>
>> My conclusion is that the coding tag in the man page is not working,
>> even when you disable all preprocessors and the coding tag gets to
>> the secon
Colin Watson schreef, Op 26-9-2013 10:32:
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 06:50:38AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
Hello Erwin!
How can this be fixed?
Assuming that the problem is caused by `-p', a possible solution is to
not use this man option or environment variable and add option `-t' to
nroff in `
> My conclusion is that the coding tag in the man page is not working,
> even when you disable all preprocessors and the coding tag gets to
> the second line. Disabling all preprocessors is probably not what
> you want. The only way out, with the use of Federico's man and
> preconv, is to convert
Werner LEMBERG schreef, Op 26-9-2013 6:50:
>
> Hello Erwin!
Hi,
>
> Please send such questions to the groff mailing list (which I've now
> CCed).
Thanks.
>
>> This was my problem:
>>
>> I set a French locale fr_FR.UTF-8, and have a Latin-1 formatted man
>> page (vim.1). The problem was that
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 06:50:38AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> Hello Erwin!
> > How can this be fixed?
>
> Assuming that the problem is caused by `-p', a possible solution is to
> not use this man option or environment variable and add option `-t' to
> nroff in `/etc/man.conf'.
Or use man-db i
Hello Erwin!
Please send such questions to the groff mailing list (which I've now
CCed).
> It is now three years later, and I'm still having trouble with the
> coding tag (see below). Do you remember?
Mhmm, vaguely :-)
> This was my problem:
>
> I set a French locale fr_FR.UTF-8, and have a
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