> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 05:55:52PM -0400, Federico Lucifredi wrote: >> On Sep 26, 2013, at 4:32 AM, Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> wrote: >>> Or use man-db instead, which is much smarter about character encodings >>> and handles your situation out of the box with no configuration >>> required; I just tested it to confirm this. >> >> Since both pagers use troff in the back-end, this is just a matter of >> making the correct use of it. Let me check if I am doing something >> funky upstream, with Werner's information it should be relatively >> simple.
> I don't think you should be under the false impression that it's a simple > problem Colin, I was referring to this bug specifically, not making the generic statement you are taking this as. We have patchsets for the genric problem as well, and it is not a huge issue, but sure, that is a larger problem. It was approached differently in man as it was in man-db. In any event, with all due respect, I would appreciate if you'd let me resolve man's bugs without soapboxing about your package every time. If I were to do that when I see a bug that says "this works in man, but not in man-db", much less reply with "okay, switch then!", we would be having quite a few "funny" conversations. Thanks -F _________________________________________ -- "'Problem' is a bleak word for challenge" - Richard Fish (Federico L. Lucifredi) - flucifredi at acm.org - GnuPG 0x4A73884C
