On 2004-03-29 15:16:58 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 03:37:11PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2004-03-29 14:17:52 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 01:51:26PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > > And how about apostrophes? They get translated into some Unicode > > > > character and searching for strings containing an apostrophe no > > > > longer works. > > > > > > You can always use LC_CTYPE=C ... really, pagers ought to be > > > educated. > > > > I'm not sure I understand. If there are *real* Unicode characters > > in man pages, would they still be displayed? > > No. Direct Unicode groff input isn't supported anyway, mind you, and the > whole system is a bit of a house of cards there ...
Well, at least the solution should work with ISO-8859-1 (man pages in French seem to use that). > > > You can use similar tricks to those in > > > /usr/share/doc/groff/README.Debian on apostrophes if you like, > > > though. > > > > I use pod2man, so I don't think I can. > > pod2man doesn't preclude this. It's only configuration for your local > system. I thought you meant a trick consisting in generating something in a man page to prevent the conversion (i.e. fixing the man page). So, do you mean the trick consisting in editing /etc/groff/man.local and /etc/groff/mdoc.local? What if one doesn't have a root access? -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> - 100% validated (X)HTML - Acorn Risc PC, Yellow Pig 17, Championnat International des Jeux Mathématiques et Logiques, TETRHEX, etc. Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / SPACES project at LORIA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
