Re: UTF-8 in copyright files?

2003-12-18 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 12:45:41AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Sven Luther wrote: I choose fr_FR.UTF8 or something such in gnome GDM. And it IS just like that in your /etc/locale.gen as well? fr_FR only won't do. I have many locales there, en_IN UTF8

Re: UTF-8 in copyright files?

2003-12-18 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 01:48:41AM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 09:23:01PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 07:44:35PM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 07:00:26PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Well, i most definitively cannot see it,

Re: UTF-8 in copyright files?

2003-12-18 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Sven Luther wrote: I have many locales there, [...] Should be ok, no ? Yes, it is correct... -- One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie. -- The Silicon

Re: UTF-8 in copyright files?

2003-12-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 10:12:13AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Other problems is sshing from a non UTF terminal, but then luit helps, but there is not really much we can do there, no ? This is a pain in the arse, frankly, because there's no way I've found to pass environment variables such as

Re: UTF-8 in copyright files?

2003-12-18 Thread Thomas Wouters
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 01:38:35PM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 10:12:13AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Other problems is sshing from a non UTF terminal, but then luit helps, but there is not really much we can do there, no ? This is a pain in the arse, frankly, because

Splitting man pages

2003-12-18 Thread blacksheep
Hallo folks! I had to wrote a lot of man pages for a multiple-binary package. They have to include all the same portion of text for full explanation. A first solution I found was to provide an additional troff document which any man page would include

Re: Splitting man pages

2003-12-18 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 06:55:38PM +0100, blacksheep wrote: .so additional.1 But lintian shout out something like: WHAT IS THAT FOR ? You should not provide a mapage with no corresponding binary ! That would be bad if some package someday provides a /usr/bin/additional. My

Re: Splitting man pages

2003-12-18 Thread Nathaniel W. Turner
Hi Paolo! On Thursday 18 December 2003 12:55, blacksheep wrote: .so /usr/share/package-name/additional.1 This is a bit esoteric, but I export /usr/share/man from one of my systems and mount it (as /usr/local/share/man) on some others, so that I do not have to install manpages on every system.

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Re: UTF-8 in copyright files?

2003-12-18 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 12:45:41AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Sven Luther wrote: I choose fr_FR.UTF8 or something such in gnome GDM. And it IS just like that in your /etc/locale.gen as well? fr_FR only won't do. I have many locales there, en_IN UTF8

Re: UTF-8 in copyright files?

2003-12-18 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 01:48:41AM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 09:23:01PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 07:44:35PM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 07:00:26PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Well, i most definitively cannot see it,

Re: UTF-8 in copyright files?

2003-12-18 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Sven Luther wrote: I have many locales there, [...] Should be ok, no ? Yes, it is correct... -- One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie. -- The Silicon

Re: UTF-8 in copyright files?

2003-12-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 10:12:13AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Other problems is sshing from a non UTF terminal, but then luit helps, but there is not really much we can do there, no ? This is a pain in the arse, frankly, because there's no way I've found to pass environment variables such as

Re: UTF-8 in copyright files?

2003-12-18 Thread Thomas Wouters
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 01:38:35PM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 10:12:13AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Other problems is sshing from a non UTF terminal, but then luit helps, but there is not really much we can do there, no ? This is a pain in the arse, frankly, because

Splitting man pages

2003-12-18 Thread blacksheep
Hallo folks! I had to wrote a lot of man pages for a multiple-binary package. They have to include all the same portion of text for full explanation. A first solution I found was to provide an additional troff document which any man page would include

Re: Splitting man pages

2003-12-18 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 06:55:38PM +0100, blacksheep wrote: .so additional.1 But lintian shout out something like: WHAT IS THAT FOR ? You should not provide a mapage with no corresponding binary ! That would be bad if some package someday provides a /usr/bin/additional.

Re: Splitting man pages

2003-12-18 Thread Nathaniel W. Turner
Hi Paolo! On Thursday 18 December 2003 12:55, blacksheep wrote: .so /usr/share/package-name/additional.1 This is a bit esoteric, but I export /usr/share/man from one of my systems and mount it (as /usr/local/share/man) on some others, so that I do not have to install manpages on every system.