About 20 years after the invention of utf-8, I've decided to see what
all the fuss is about and experiment with uxterm and whatnot.
Naturally, this means I want to see sweet fancy quotes in all my man
pages instead of the lame ``fake'' quotes. In order to convince mandoc
to give me what I want, however, requires a command line option. But
what about all those old school ascii only terminals I still sometimes
use?
mandoc fortunately has an option -Tlocale, which will pick between
ascii and utf8 based on environment. Perfect! Let's use it.
Tested to work as expected in uxterm. Tested to change nothing in a
regular xterm by default (no LC_CTYPE set).
Index: man.conf
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RCS file: /cvs/src/etc/man.conf,v
retrieving revision 1.18
diff -u -p -r1.18 man.conf
--- man.conf 13 Jul 2013 20:21:52 -0000 1.18
+++ man.conf 14 Feb 2014 02:14:29 -0000
@@ -16,15 +16,15 @@ _subdir {cat,man}1 {cat,man}8 {cat,man}
_suffix .0
_build .0.Z /usr/bin/zcat %s
_build .0.gz /usr/bin/gzcat %s
-_build .[1-9n] /usr/bin/mandoc %s
-_build .[1-9n].Z /usr/bin/zcat %s | /usr/bin/mandoc
-_build .[1-9n].gz /usr/bin/gzcat %s | /usr/bin/mandoc
-_build .[1-9][a-z] /usr/bin/mandoc %s
-_build .[1-9][a-z].Z /usr/bin/zcat %s | /usr/bin/mandoc
-_build .[1-9][a-z].gz /usr/bin/gzcat %s | /usr/bin/mandoc
-_build .tbl /usr/bin/mandoc %s
-_build .tbl.Z /usr/bin/zcat %s | /usr/bin/mandoc
-_build .tbl.gz /usr/bin/gzcat %s | /usr/bin/mandoc
+_build .[1-9n] /usr/bin/mandoc -Tlocale %s
+_build .[1-9n].Z /usr/bin/zcat %s | /usr/bin/mandoc -Tlocale
+_build .[1-9n].gz /usr/bin/gzcat %s | /usr/bin/mandoc -Tlocale
+_build .[1-9][a-z] /usr/bin/mandoc -Tlocale %s
+_build .[1-9][a-z].Z /usr/bin/zcat %s | /usr/bin/mandoc -Tlocale
+_build .[1-9][a-z].gz /usr/bin/gzcat %s | /usr/bin/mandoc -Tlocale
+_build .tbl /usr/bin/mandoc -Tlocale %s
+_build .tbl.Z /usr/bin/zcat %s | /usr/bin/mandoc -Tlocale
+_build .tbl.gz /usr/bin/gzcat %s | /usr/bin/mandoc -Tlocale
# Sections and their directories.
# All paths ending in '/' are the equivalent of entries specifying that
