On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 10:00:21AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 11 octobre 2007 à 12:22 +0100, Colin Watson a écrit : > > My original plan was that UTF-8 manual pages should be installed in > > /usr/share/man/<language>.UTF-8/ (unless your language is Chinese or > > Portuguese, just use the language code, not the country code, so for > > example French manual pages would go in /usr/share/man/fr.UTF-8/). I had > > a long discussion with Adam Borowski on debian-mentors recently in which > > he persuaded me that it was both possible and worth it to implement > > compatibility with the scheme used by e.g. Red Hat, in which manual > > pages installed in unadorned directories such as /usr/share/man/fr/ are > > assumed to be in UTF-8. > > Sorry? Do you mean that in Debian this is currently not the case?
That is correct. /usr/share/man/fr/ is historically ISO-8859-1 and we can't go around breaking that. > How can you expect the encoding of a file given only its language? *shrug* It's not an ideal situation but it's what we're historically stuck with. man has a big table of what people have historically used. > Anything else than a unique encoding is doomed to produce very ugly > results. That's why I advocate putting UTF-8 manual pages in /usr/share/man/fr.UTF-8/ to make it explicit for the future. However, it *is* possible to detect the special case of UTF-8 vs. practically anything else we care about fairly reliably, so manconv implements that anyway. Files that have historically been assumed to be ISO-8859-1 should still work fine as such. I've taken a fair amount of care not to break this. Do you have a practical example of something that's breaking? Your concern is not very specific. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
