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 specially-patched > > versions. > > I do know that Debian uses EUC-JP encoded man pages if you're in the Japanese > locale, so multibyte support does work (install man-db and do: > > man -l /usr/share/man/ja/man1/manpath.1.gz > > ), but that doesn't help me much in my English locale.
Yes. Basically, unless you push restructuring of man in Debian, you are out of lack, I think. Please think about documenting in README.Debian, README.UTF-8, HTML or somthing other than ... 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. > -- > ┌── dg@cowlark.com ─── http://www.cowlark.com ─────────────────── > │ > │ "There does not now, nor will there ever, exist a programming language in > │ which it is the least bit hard to write bad programs." --- Flon's Axiom > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]