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-8859-1, so it's not possible to use kanji in one. > > Various people on -mentors suggested that this was wrong as there was a plan > in place to convert to using UTF-8 throughout, and that I should bring this up > here; I can't find any references to such a plan on the 'net --- is there one? > What's its status? And what should I do to get my man page working?
Belatedly, I'd like to point this list at: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=440420 ... though it won't help you as such just yet due to the caveat I mention at the end of my transition plan, but it's part of the process of getting there from here. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
