Am Dienstag, den 11.09.2007, 12:35 +0100 schrieb Reuben Thomas: Hello Thomas,
> >> According to Colin Watson, "With some exceptions for Far Eastern > >> languages, manual pages should not at present be encoded using UTF-8. > >> As such, it's reasonable to file bugs against packages attempting to > >> use UTF-8 where it is not yet supported." > > > > etch supports utf8 by default > > Not (according to Colin) in man pages, except in certain locales. Viewing a > UTF-8 encoded man page with man (using less as the pager) in a UTF-8 locale, > in xterm, does not work: the UTF-8 characters are not output correctly. For > example, with LANG=en_GB.UTF-8. OK, but then its a problem/bug of man and/or the pager IMHO and this should be fixed and not the manpage itself. The problem should be fixed and not worked around this bug with changing the manpage. Why do you prefer to change the content and not the viewer? > If I use an 8-bit locale, the output is correct, but that's not exactly > "supporting UTF-8"! Yes. -- Noèl Köthe <noel debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux, www.debian.org
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