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Re: [PATCH] Drop UTF-8 characters in manual pages

From
Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date
Sep 18, 2007, 09:34 UTC
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<20070918093426.GA9216@glandium.org>
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On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 02:15:35AM -0700, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> writes:
> 
> > The default character encoding for english manual pages is ISO8859-1,
> 
> On which distro?

Debian, at least, though transition to UTF-8 manpages is going to happen (it seems there was a lack of proper encoding handling in man-db until very recently)

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> > so
> > UTF-8 characters are just displayed as their sequence of bytes, which is
> > not very appealing.
> 
> Perhaps not.  I cannot decide what to do with
> Documentation/git-pack-redundant.txt, though.
I'd say just use a transliterated form until man-db mess is sorted out.
Mike
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  1. Drop UTF-8 characters in manual pagesMike Hommey, Sep 18, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoSep 18, 2007
  3. Mike HommeySep 18, 2007
  4. Lukas SandströmSep 20, 2007

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