[Groff] Re: viewing UTF-8 encoded man pages

2005-07-07 Thread Bruno Haible
srintuar wrote: > Just fyi, under fedora core 3 with a nearly stock install, > both of those files show up just fine in gnome terminal with > the system "man". Thanks for this info. Indeed, in Fedora core 3/4, they - replaced the "nroff" command with one that understands a --legacy CHARSET

[Groff] Re: viewing UTF-8 encoded man pages

2005-07-06 Thread srintuar
Bruno Haible wrote: Is someone aware of an easy way to view UTF-8 encoded man pages? So far, groff supports only Latin1 encoded input, i.e. it does not support Greek, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese etc. manpages. Just fyi, under fedora core 3 with a nearly stock install, both of those

[Groff] Re: viewing UTF-8 encoded man pages

2005-07-06 Thread srintuar
Bruno Haible wrote: Is someone aware of an easy way to view UTF-8 encoded man pages? So far, groff supports only Latin1 encoded input, i.e. it does not support Greek, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese etc. manpages. Just fyi, under fedora core 3 with a nearly stock install, both of thos

[Groff] Re: viewing UTF-8 encoded man pages

2005-07-05 Thread Bruno Haible
Andries Brouwer wrote: > Hmm. Long ago I added some code to man that sufficed to make some > Russian users happy. Forgot all details. See man-iconv.c. > (Maybe that threw in an invocation of iconv when reading the pages?) That worked because KOI8-R, like ISO-8859-1, consists of only 256 characters

[Groff] Re: viewing UTF-8 encoded man pages

2005-07-05 Thread Andries Brouwer
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 01:15:34PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: > Is someone aware of an easy way to view UTF-8 encoded man pages? > So far, groff supports only Latin1 encoded input, i.e. it does not support > Greek, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese etc. manpages. Hmm. Long ago I added some c