On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 01:02:33PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > --- orig/policy.sgml > +++ mod/policy.sgml > @@ -8450,6 +8450,39 @@ > be present in the future. > </footnote> > </p> > + > + <p> > + Manual pages that are installed under > + <file>/usr/share/man/</file><var>ll</var>, where <var>ll</var>
Please use <file>/usr/share/man/<var>ll</var></file> as ll is part of the filename. > + is an ISO-639 language code, must be encoded with the usual > + legacy (non-UTF-8) character set for that language, as shown > + by: > + <example compact="compact"> > +egrep -v '\.|@|UTF-8' /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED You are aware of the fact that some languages such as Vietnamese have a 8 bit encoding but do not match this regular expression (vi_VN.TCVN TCVN5712-1)? > + At present, it is not generally possible to install a manual > + page encoded in UTF-8 such that it will be used in all locales > + for that language (for example, a page installed under > + <file>/usr/share/man/fr_FR.UTF-8</file> will not be used in > + the <tt>fr_BE.UTF-8</tt> locale). It is therefore not yet > + recommended to install pages encoded in UTF-8, but rather to > + continue using the legacy encoding.<footnote>This is expected > + to change as of man-db 2.5.0.</footnote> Maybe it would be a good idea to explain what to do with non supported encodings these days. What to do with a Vietnamese page? Installing it now UTF-8 encoded into vi.UTF-8/ seems fine to me but you write "not yet recommended"! > 1. Status at time of writing: packages should use only > /usr/share/man/<ll>/ (although some packages have anticipated an Except for languages not yet supported by a classical encoding ... > 5. Update dh_installman to recode manual pages to UTF-8 automatically > and install them under /usr/share/man/<ll>.UTF-8/. Getting the This requires an option to specify the encoding of the manual page. Or assume UTF-8 by default for all languages not having a matching regular expression. > Conflicts:/Breaks: in here might be difficult, plus I'm not sure Why not just ignoring this? If updating man-db is sufficient let's ignore dependencies. (If a HTML documentation file uses the new (fictitious) HTML version 9 there is no need to list all browsers supporting this in the dependencies.) Jens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
