Package: man-db
Version: 2.5.2-2
Severity: normal
manconv supports coding tags by means of Emacs file variables. However,
at the moment, it only supports them in the form "-*- coding: foo". The
current groff preconv manual page documents more complete syntax and
semantics:
Coding tags in GNU Emacs and XEmacs are stored in so-called
File Variables. preconv recognizes the following syntax form
which must be put into a troff comment in the first or second
line.
-*- tag1: value1; tag2: value2; ... -*-
The only relevant tag for preconv is `coding' which can take
the values listed below. Here an example line which tells
Emacs to edit a file in troff mode, and to use latin2 as its
encoding.
.\" -*- mode: troff; coding: latin-2 -*-
The following list gives all MIME coding tags (either lowercase
or uppercase) supported by preconv; this list is hard-coded in
the source.
big5, cp1047, euc-jp, euc-kr, gb2312, iso-8859-1,
iso-8859-2, iso-8859-5, iso-8859-7, iso-8859-9,
iso-8859-13, iso-8859-15, koi8-r, us-ascii, utf-8,
utf-16, utf-16be, utf-16le
In addition, the following hard-coded list of other tags is
recognized which eventually map to values from the list above.
ascii, chinese-big5, chinese-euc, chinese-iso-8bit,
cn-big5, cn-gb, cn-gb-2312, cp878, csascii, csisolatin1,
cyrillic-iso-8bit, cyrillic-koi8, euc-china, euc-cn,
euc-japan, euc-japan-1990, euc-korea, greek-iso-8bit,
iso-10646/utf8, iso-10646/utf-8, iso-latin-1,
iso-latin-2, iso-latin-5, iso-latin-7, iso-latin-9,
japanese-euc, japanese-iso-8bit, jis8, koi8, korean-euc,
korean-iso-8bit, latin-0, latin1, latin-1, latin-2,
latin-5, latin-7, latin-9, mule-utf-8, mule-utf-16,
mule-utf-16be, mule-utf-16-be,
mule-utf-16be-with-signature, mule-utf-16le,
mule-utf-16-le, mule-utf-16le-with-signature, utf8,
utf-16-be, utf-16-be-with-signature,
utf-16be-with-signature, utf-16-le,
utf-16-le-with-signature, utf-16le-with-signature
Those tags are taken from GNU Emacs and XEmacs, together with
some aliases. Trailing `-dos', `-unix', and `-mac' suffixes of
coding tags (which give the end-of-line convention used in the
file) are stripped off before the comparison with the above
tags happens.
--
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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