[arch-dev-public] Updating 'man'

[Dan McGee]

On Jan 23, 2008 10:47 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Jan 23, 2008 5:38 AM, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Aaron Griffin wrote:
> > > Hey guys, I tried contacting Andy directly but got no response, so I
> > > am going to run this by everyone else.
> > >
> > > I want to update the man package with a couple of changes:
> > >
> > > Remove -Tlatin from the nroff call, as nroff will autodetect the
> > > proper charset (this will help in displaying utf8 man pages), closing
> > > 7477 hopefully.
> > > Run configure with +fhs so that it thinks man pages are in
> > > /usr/share/man *first*
> > >
> > > Is this acceptable?
> > >
> >
> > Removing -Tlatin1 from the nroff call is apparently required for
> > displaying man pages correctly (eg pacman man page with ´ or localized
> > mplayer man page), so that change looks good to me.
> > And probably this should be done when the new filesystem is moved to core.
>
> This is all unrelated to filesystem moving to core. The filesystem
> change is regarding the LOCATION of man pages, this is regarding the
> ENCODING of man pages. They're very different issues.

Um...we removed some MANLOCALE setting or something that was latin1 in
/etc/profile...so it is related. That is what is causing breakage too.

-Dan