Gentoo Archives: gentoo-releng

From: "Mirosław Mieszczak" <mieszcz@×××××××××××××.pl>
To: gentoo-releng@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-releng] Call for feature request for 2008.0 (unicode)
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:16:56
Message-Id: 200801291516.46480.mieszcz@zabrze.zigzag.pl
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-releng] Call for feature request for 2008.0 (unicode) by Igor Cavalcante
1 > In documents of gentoo http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/utf-8.xml is an excerpt
2 > explaining how change man pages for the UTF-8 format.
3 >
4 > "Man
5 >
6 > Man pages are an integral part of any Linux machine. To ensure that any
7 > unicode in your man pages render correctly, edit / etc / man.conf and
8 > replace the line as shown below.
9 >
10 Yes, I know that. But there is only one small thing, this solution is not
11 working with national characters out of ISO-8859-1 codepage. In such case
12 there is necessity of conversion of manuals into utf8, and such solutions are
13 available in external overlays like arcon (not yet in portage).
14
15
16 Best regards
17
18 Mirek
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