On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 12:42:49PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > I don't much like any of the switch ideas, since they would probably > not be able to express all possible collections of man pages (given > debhelper's current command line parser). The manpage:encoding idea > could work, but might have ambiguity issues with man pages with colons > in their name (perl ones have two colons, but I'll bet there are some > with one).
Mm, yes, colon was a bad choice. > I'd be ok with DWIM here if it worked the same way man does, perhaps > by using manconv directly? manconv is a bit too low-level; you have to tell it the encodings you want to convert from and to. It can't look at where your manual page is installed and guess likely encodings from it. I think we need a --recode option to man that spits out a version of the source manual page in the requested encoding, without doing .so elimination or any other kind of preprocessing. Does that sound about right? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
