Kaixo!

On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 08:20:53PM +0100, Markus Kuhn wrote:
> Pablo Saratxaga wrote on 2001-05-03 18:29 UTC:
> > > No, this is not at all the problem! Groff -Tutf8 on a non-utf8 file
> > > produces already perfectly nice UTF-8 files from ASCII man pages.
> > 
> > For ascii yes :) as it happens to be invariant in this case.
> 
> No, it is not invariant. English ASCII text is formatted using lots of
> lovely non-ASCII Unicode characters with -Tutf8 to get the best possible

I mean ascii text is invariant when displayed in utf-8.
Yes, groff adds extra, non ascii, things when formatting; but that is another
thing.

> [ls bug]
> > It apparently is fixed in fileutils 4.1;
> 
> RH 7.1 comes with "ls (GNU fileutils) 4.0.36" and that works nicely for
> me so far in UTF-8 locales.

Maybe the fix came from them? Maybe also it has been fixed before 4.1 (but
after 4.0).

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Ki ça vos våye bén,
Pablo Saratxaga

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