[arch-general] man pages and utf8

[Aaron Griffin]

On Jan 31, 2008 3:28 PM, Attila <attila at 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.