On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 07:41:13PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Andries,
>
> Currently on a Linux system you find man pages in the following encodings:
> - ISO-8859-1 (German, Spanish, French, Italian, Brasilian, ...),
> - ISO-8859-2 (Hungarian, Polish, ...),
> - KOI8-R (Russian),
> - EUC
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
Sorry, replied to the old address.
Greg
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> Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 08:36:16 +0930
> From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: linux-utf8@nl.linux.org, Andries Brouwer <[EMAIL
I'm getting escape characters in my -man output -- the 0m
stuff. I googled and it isn't just me:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-groff/2003-03/msg0.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-groff/2002-08/msg00092.html
http://www.wplug.org/pipermail/wplug/2003-March/015970.html
I'm r
Greg Lehey wrote:
> > b) Recognize the encoding according to a note in the first line
> > '\" -*- coding: EUC-JP -*-
> > groff will then emit errors when it is fed input that is non-ASCII
> > and without coding: marker, so that man page maintainers are notified
> > that they need to
Hi Andries,
Thanks for the details.
> (2) You say: `The goal is that "groff -T... -mandoc" on any man page works,
> without need to specify the encoding as an argument to groff'.
>
> (2A) This will work in simple cases, where input encoding and output
> encoding and system character set are equal
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
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 01:50:31PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
Hi Bruno,
Some of your answer sounds as if you interpret my reply differently
than I had intended. On the other hand, I do not disagree with
your proposed plan.
One wants something like (1) a system-wide default, (2) a user locale
tha
