On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 04:15:31PM +0200, Jens Seidel wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 01:11:04PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > I'm not sure how to word this in policy though; do you have any
> > suggestions?
> 
> How about:
> 
> "It is therefore not yet recommended to install UTF-8 encoded pages if a
> classical encoding can be used instead, but rather to continue using the
> legacy encoding."

That sounds reasonable, though I'd use the same term (either "classical
encoding" or "legacy encoding") in both places to avoid creating
confusion about whether these might be two different things.

> > /usr/share/man/bg.
> > 
> > In the case of the Vietnamese page, please change the "—" character
> > (U+2014) to "\-" as is standard in NAME sections; otherwise this works
> 
> Oops, Clytie used a Unicode character and Lintian or po4a did not
> complained :-( I will file a bug against Lintian ...

There's already a to-do comment in Lintian noting that it doesn't check
non-English manual pages yet; this can be changed once man-db 2.5.0 is
uploaded, but not really before.

> > fine when recoded via TCVN5712-1 so I've added support for this too.
> 
> Great, but I think TCVN5712-1 is not supported by po4a as output
> encoding.

I meant having man do this automatically.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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