[arch-general] man pages and utf8

Regarding the discussion going on in arch-dev-public about changes in man and utf8 compliance. As far as i remember Roman's feature request [1] wasnt even mentioned. At least not recently. Are there any thoughts of replacing man with man-db? Or the recent chamges in man and groff make this FR invalid? [1]http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9130