Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. napsal(a): > On Thursday 22 February 2007 23:14, paulie.x wrote: >> Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. napsal(a): >>> On Thursday 22 February 2007, jcd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >>> >>> about '[gentoo-user] Problem with UNICODE and man pages encoding': >>>> Hi. >>>> I converted my system to UNICODE with assistance >>>> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Make_your_system_use_unicode/utf-8. >>>> But my man-pages are >>>> still displayed with bad characters ('á' is 'á') in console even in X >>>> terminal emulator. >>>> >>>> I tried to changed line in >>>> /etc/make.conf: >>>> Code: >>>> NROFF /usr/bin/nroff -Tascii -c -mandoc > > I don't have a line that looks anything like that in my make.conf > >>>> to >>>> Code: >>>> NROFF /usr/bin/nroff -Tutf8 -c -mandoc >>> 1) Those lines aren't the correct format for make.conf. Normally, > you'd >>> use something like: >>> VARIABLE="value" >>> >>> 2) NROFF isn't a valid make.conf variable. See the make.conf(5) > manpage >>> for a list of valid make.conf variables. >>> >>> I'm not sure exactly what you are trying to do, but I think it's more >>> likely controlled by an nroff USE flag or configuration file than a >>> portage configuration files. >> OK. If it isn't correct format and NROFF isn't valid variable, then it is >> bug in gentoo package, because I just changed the parameters to >> /usr/bin/nroff. I also didn't find any suitale USE flag. > > It's possible that you need to add this variable to some file > under /etc/env.d, or perhaps add a global alias and/or function > in /etc/profile.d, or maybe an nroff or man or other package configuration > file. I suppose make.conf could be used, but I'm fairly certain those > variables aren't guaranteed to filter down to any subprocesses -- they are > only meant to affect the behavior of ebuilds. > > In /etc/env.d or /etc/make.conf you'll use the VARIABLE="value" syntax. > In /etc/profile.d anything bash can handle will work. For another > configuration file, it might be totally different. > > In any case, most packages don't provide a generic way to modify their > default > parameters (via environment variables or anything else), and I would guess > that setting the NROFF variable to some value wouldn't actually change the > way the nroff binary worked (but it could!). > > It could very well be a bug but, you are going to have to be more specific > about the behavior you are trying to achieve with that "make.conf" setting. > Feel free to file at b.g.o. if you think this is a failing of the package > or > the portage system. >
I just confused man.conf with make.conf... I meant man.conf in all messages. Sorry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
