[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
On Jan 31, 2008 2:25 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis <grbzks@gmail.com> wrote:
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?
Of course there are thoughts on it. I was the one that asked him to open the feature request in the first place. The utf8 fix was painfully simple, so it was put in place. Replacing man with man-db is not as simple, so wasn't the first choice here. As always, this was a "scratch an itch" thing - man pages in _my_ locale acted goofy, so I fixed it. Apparently, using man-db fixes about 5 other bug reports we have regarding cyrillic characters, so this will most likely get done, but in all honesty, it's not my top priority and I'm not even the 'man' maintainer. I simply fixed some breakage.
On Donnerstag, 31. Januar 2008 21:25 Grigorios Bouzakis wrote:
Regarding the discussion going on in arch-dev-public about changes in man and utf8 compliance.
I support every step to get utf8 and man work together. At the moment with LANG=de_DE.utf8 i give NROFF the '-Tascii' option. But this is only okay because the most man pages be in english and so the possibility that i can search for a '-' character is more important than seeing an umlaut. Good luck and thanks for your impulse. See you, Attila
On Jan 31, 2008 3:28 PM, Attila <attila@invalid.invalid> wrote:
On Donnerstag, 31. Januar 2008 21:25 Grigorios Bouzakis wrote:
Regarding the discussion going on in arch-dev-public about changes in man and utf8 compliance.
I support every step to get utf8 and man work together. At the moment with LANG=de_DE.utf8 i give NROFF the '-Tascii' option. But this is only okay because the most man pages be in english and so the possibility that i can search for a '-' character is more important than seeing an umlaut.
The '-' character searching is fixed with the groff package in testing. It will move to core soon. Also fixed is ' (quote) character searching.
On Donnerstag, 31. Januar 2008 23:05 Aaron Griffin wrote:
The '-' character searching is fixed with the groff package in testing. It will move to core soon.
Fantastic. I take the files from testing and now man works well with utf8. Thanks a lot. See you, Attila
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Aaron Griffin
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Attila
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Grigorios Bouzakis