On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 09:22:04PM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote:
> 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).
I don't see any problem from the locale side, so OK with me.
But I cannot speak for the man side of things.
> Index: man.conf
> ===================================================================
> 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
