Niko Tyni <nt...@debian.org> writes: > I think upstream (Russ and iirc others on p5p too) have been stepping > very carefully here due to compatibility issues with older nroff > implementations and the like.
Guillem did some more investigation, and sadly it turns out that raw UTF-8 in man pages continues to break even completely current man implementations on platforms like macOS. > There's [rt.cpan.org #68741] upstream, quoting Russ in 2011: "I'm > currently leaning towards outputing UTF-8 by default, but I'm kicking > around the idea of trying to use the user's locale." > Russ, any thoughts about the current status? I still haven't done anything. :( It looks like any solution will require generating non-portable man pages. Maybe that doesn't matter any more, and I should just default to generating UTF-8 man pages on any Linux platform. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
