Re: [Cooker] NEW packages : exscalibar and groff-utf8

[Andrey Borzenkov]

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> > The groff-utf8 make works the man in utf8 perfectly.
> > I added a small script that backup the /etc/man.config
> > to /etc/man.config.old-utf8
> > Then it enable with a sed the groff-utf8 as default.
> > It works perfectly fine for man that are recoded in utf8, man in
> > latin1/iso8859-1 need be recoded, else it show a ? instead of the
> > accentuated chars.
> > I set 0.1 version because the script is not versionned, I don't know if
> > it's the right way to do it...
> > ps : is there a script to find the charset of a text file (to recode the
> > file if the charset is in iso8859-1/latin1 for example).
>
> Hi,
>
> it would be nice if groff could be fixed. The German man pages look
> terrible. Thierry, can you please take a look at it?

you should look at Russian ones then :(

but it can't be fixed unless consistent encoding for man pages is established. 
I do not trust automatic encoding detection frankly speaking. World is not 
limited to latin1 vs. utf-8.

I vote for making UTF-8 man page a standard policy; it makes it possible to 
consistently use 'iconv -f utf-8' as filter for non-UTF locales i.e. be 
consistent with current situation. 
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