From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:34:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Drop UTF-8 characters in manual pages
Message-ID: <20070918093426.GA9216@glandium.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vd4wgwczs.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 02:15:35AM -0700, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> 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)

> > 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