[arch-dev-public] Updating 'man'

[Aaron Griffin]

On Jan 23, 2008 10:59 AM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

LESSCHARSET

But that only affects less, and not man pages. It's a fine line, but I
know at least a few people that don't use less as their MANPAGER