[arch-dev-public] [signoff] man 1.6f-2 and groff 1.19.2-4
These two come as one nice little change, as they both need to go to core at the same time. * man 1.6f-2 Build with FHS compliance. Remove the default latin1 output, let the groff decide the charset Ref: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2008-January/004177.html * groff 1.19.2-4 Fix the output in utf8 mode so characters match those we can actually type Ref: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2008-January/004223.html Please sign off
2008/1/30, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com>:
These two come as one nice little change, as they both need to go to core at the same time.
* man 1.6f-2 Build with FHS compliance. Remove the default latin1 output, let the groff decide the charset Ref: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2008-January/004177.html
* groff 1.19.2-4 Fix the output in utf8 mode so characters match those we can actually type Ref: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2008-January/004223.html
After some testing done by me and sergej (our Russian TU) we've come to conclusion that nroff (or groff) doesn't work well for Cyrillic UTF-8 characters. See http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7477#comment24205 But it doesn't seem that new groff and man packages don't make it worse (special NROFF in man.conf was required before anyway). So it's a sign-off from me. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
On Jan 30, 2008 12:23 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
These two come as one nice little change, as they both need to go to core at the same time.
* man 1.6f-2 Build with FHS compliance. Remove the default latin1 output, let the groff decide the charset Ref: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2008-January/004177.html
I noticed an overzealous sed or something made the following comment block a bit odd in man.conf. Anywhere that "-Tlatin1" appeared you removed it, which makes the below comments not so helpful. Below I changed it so the second line still contains the -Tlatin1 note, and the note about UTF-8 double conversion was completely removed. # # Useful paths - note that COL should not be defined when # NROFF is defined as "groff -Tascii" or "groff -Tlatin1"; # not only is it superfluous, but it actually damages the output. # For use with utf-8, NROFF should be "nroff -mandoc" without -T option. # # If you have a new troff (version 1.18.1?) and its colored output # causes problems, add the -c option to TROFF, NROFF, JNROFF. # I'll still give groff and man my signoff though for i686, although it would be good to get this fixed in a future release. -Dan
On Jan 30, 2008 9:44 AM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> wrote:
I noticed an overzealous sed or something made the following comment block a bit odd in man.conf. Anywhere that "-Tlatin1" appeared you removed it, which makes the below comments not so helpful. Below I changed it so the second line still contains the -Tlatin1 note, and the note about UTF-8 double conversion was completely removed.
Hah. Thanks. In a future release, I believe I might just check in a man.conf and copy it over, it'll be easier. Which arches did you two sign off for?
2008/1/30, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com>:
On Jan 30, 2008 9:44 AM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> wrote:
I noticed an overzealous sed or something made the following comment block a bit odd in man.conf. Anywhere that "-Tlatin1" appeared you removed it, which makes the below comments not so helpful. Below I changed it so the second line still contains the -Tlatin1 note, and the note about UTF-8 double conversion was completely removed.
Hah. Thanks. In a future release, I believe I might just check in a man.conf and copy it over, it'll be easier.
Which arches did you two sign off for?
i686 here. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
On Jan 30, 2008 12:23 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
These two come as one nice little change, as they both need to go to core at the same time.
* man 1.6f-2 Build with FHS compliance. Remove the default latin1 output, let the groff decide the charset Ref: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2008-January/004177.html
* groff 1.19.2-4 Fix the output in utf8 mode so characters match those we can actually type Ref: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2008-January/004223.html
Please sign off
Again 2 i686 signoffs - any x86_64 guys?
participants (4)
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Aaron Griffin
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Dan McGee
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Roman Kyrylych
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Thomas Bächler