# [PATCH] Drop UTF-8 characters in manual pages 4 messages from 2007-09-18 to 2007-09-20. Participants: Mike Hommey, Junio C Hamano, Lukas Sandström. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/9909 ## Mike Hommey, 2007-09-18 07:26 Subject: [PATCH] Drop UTF-8 characters in manual pages Message-ID: <11901003792475-git-send-email-mh@glandium.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/11901003792475-git-send-email-mh%40glandium.org ``` The default character encoding for english manual pages is ISO8859-1, so UTF-8 characters are just displayed as their sequence of bytes, which is not very appealing. Signed-off-by: Mike Hommey --- Documentation/git-lost-found.txt | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-lost-found.txt b/Documentation/git-lost-found.txt index e48607f..82b0699 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-lost-found.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-lost-found.txt @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ $ git rev-parse not-lost-anymore Author ------ -Written by Junio C Hamano 濱野 純 +Written by Junio C Hamano Documentation -------------- -- 1.5.3.1 ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2007-09-18 09:15 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Drop UTF-8 characters in manual pages Message-ID: <7vd4wgwczs.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vd4wgwczs.fsf%40gitster.siamese.dyndns.org In-Reply-To: <11901003792475-git-send-email-mh@glandium.org> ``` Mike Hommey writes: > The default character encoding for english manual pages is ISO8859-1, On which distro? > 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. ``` ## Mike Hommey, 2007-09-18 09:34 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Drop UTF-8 characters in manual pages Message-ID: <20070918093426.GA9216@glandium.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20070918093426.GA9216%40glandium.org In-Reply-To: <7vd4wgwczs.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> ``` On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 02:15:35AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Mike Hommey 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 ``` ## Lukas Sandström, 2007-09-20 09:08 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Drop UTF-8 characters in manual pages Message-ID: <46F2388D.2000207@etek.chalmers.se> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/46F2388D.2000207%40etek.chalmers.se In-Reply-To: <7vd4wgwczs.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> ``` Junio C Hamano wrote: > Mike Hommey writes: >> 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. > These days when we have delta reusing and repacking is quite cheap, I'd say just drop pack-redundant and its man page completely. Of course, some pople might still be using it, but I haven't felt the need for it in over a year. /Lukas Sandström ```