Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with UNICODE and man pages encoding

[paulie.x]

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. napsal(a):
> On Thursday 22 February 2007 23:14, paulie.x wrote:
>> Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. napsal(a):
>>> On Thursday 22 February 2007, jcd <jcd@××××××.cz> wrote
>>>
>>> about '[gentoo-user] Problem with UNICODE and man pages encoding':
>>>> Hi.
>>>> I converted my system to UNICODE with assistance
>>>> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Make_your_system_use_unicode/utf-8.
>>>> But my man-pages are
>>>> still displayed with bad characters ('á' is 'á') in console even in X
>>>> terminal emulator.
>>>>
>>>> I tried to changed line in
>>>> /etc/make.conf:
>>>> Code:
>>>> NROFF           /usr/bin/nroff -Tascii -c -mandoc
>
> I don't have a line that looks anything like that in my make.conf
>
>>>> to
>>>> Code:
>>>> NROFF           /usr/bin/nroff -Tutf8 -c -mandoc
>>> 1) Those lines aren't the correct format for make.conf.  Normally,
> you'd
>>> use something like:
>>> VARIABLE="value"
>>>
>>> 2) NROFF isn't a valid make.conf variable.  See the make.conf(5)
> manpage
>>> for a list of valid make.conf variables.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure exactly what you are trying to do, but I think it's more
>>> likely controlled by an nroff USE flag or configuration file than a
>>> portage configuration files.
>> OK. If it isn't correct format and NROFF isn't valid variable, then it is
>> bug in gentoo package, because I just changed the parameters to
>> /usr/bin/nroff. I also didn't find any suitale USE flag.
>
> It's possible that you need to add this variable to some file
> under /etc/env.d, or perhaps add a global alias and/or function
> in /etc/profile.d, or maybe an nroff or man or other package configuration
> file.  I suppose make.conf could be used, but I'm fairly certain those
> variables aren't guaranteed to filter down to any subprocesses -- they are
> only meant to affect the behavior of ebuilds.
>
> In /etc/env.d or /etc/make.conf you'll use the VARIABLE="value" syntax.
> In /etc/profile.d anything bash can handle will work.  For another
> configuration file, it might be totally different.
>
> In any case, most packages don't provide a generic way to modify their
> default
> parameters (via environment variables or anything else), and I would guess
> that setting the NROFF variable to some value wouldn't actually change the
> way the nroff binary worked (but it could!).
>
> It could very well be a bug but, you are going to have to be more specific
> about the behavior you are trying to achieve with that "make.conf" setting.
> Feel free to file at b.g.o. if you think this is a failing of the package
> or
> the portage system.
>

I just confused man.conf with make.conf... I meant man.conf in all messages. Sorry
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