On Thursday 01 June 2006 14:30, Josh Saddler wrote:
> Jan Kundrát wrote:
> > Wiktor Wandachowicz wrote:
> >>Summing up:
> >>* UTF-8 manuals: good or bad?
> >
> > The Only Way To Go (tm), IMHO. Let's let the legacy encodings die in
> > piece.
>
> Agreed. I'd like to see much more extensive use of Un
Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> Would it be possible to do automatic detection and unicode conversion in the
> portage install stage? I think that would probably be the best option. At a
> later stage a simple detection and warning might be sufficient.
Tricky. You can parse a file and check if it's vali
On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 21:08:54 +0200
Paul de Vrieze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thursday 01 June 2006 20:19, Jan Kundrát wrote:
> > Wiktor Wandachowicz wrote:
> > > Summing up:
> > > * UTF-8 manuals: good or bad?
> >
> > The Only Way To Go (tm), IMHO. Let's let the legacy encodings die
> > in pie
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 02:41:27PM +, Wiktor Wandachowicz wrote:
> Respectful Gentoo developers,
>
> I would like to ask what do you think about UTF-8 encoded manual pages?
> I mean, the files like ls.1.gz, which are used by honorable "man" program.
> Recently I attacked the problem a little a
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Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> On Thursday 01 June 2006 20:19, Jan Kundrát wrote:
>> Wiktor Wandachowicz wrote:
>>> Summing up:
>>> * UTF-8 manuals: good or bad?
>> The Only Way To Go (tm), IMHO. Let's let the legacy encodings die in piece.
>
> Would it be p
On Thursday 01 June 2006 20:19, Jan Kundrát wrote:
> Wiktor Wandachowicz wrote:
> > Summing up:
> > * UTF-8 manuals: good or bad?
>
> The Only Way To Go (tm), IMHO. Let's let the legacy encodings die in piece.
Would it be possible to do automatic detection and unicode conversion in the
portage in
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Jan Kundrát wrote:
> Wiktor Wandachowicz wrote:
>
>>Summing up:
>>* UTF-8 manuals: good or bad?
>
>
> The Only Way To Go (tm), IMHO. Let's let the legacy encodings die in piece.
Agreed. I'd like to see much more extensive use of Unicode throughout
Wiktor Wandachowicz wrote:
> Summing up:
> * UTF-8 manuals: good or bad?
The Only Way To Go (tm), IMHO. Let's let the legacy encodings die in piece.
> Any constructive comments are more than welcome!
The very same problem exists with man-pages-cs (which are outdated as a
bonus).
Blésmrt,
-jkt
Respectful Gentoo developers,
I would like to ask what do you think about UTF-8 encoded manual pages?
I mean, the files like ls.1.gz, which are used by honorable "man" program.
Recently I attacked the problem a little and before submitting any
patches/proposals to Gentoo bugzilla I'd like to know
