On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 14:02, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > I even considered switching the mandoc(1) default from -Tascii to > -Tlocale in general, but forgot about it again. If you like the > idea, that would be something to do after unlock; it might require > explicitly giving the -Tascii option in some build system and similar > contexts. > > I think -Tlocale might be a saner default than -Tascii nowadays. > People who don't want UTF-8 shouldn't have it in their LC_CTYPE, > and it's hard to see why people who do want it and have it in their > LC_CTYPE should be forced to give -Tlocale or something similar > to each and every utility they call.
Inclined to agree, but I wanted to try the conservative approach for this release. I don't know how many places the output of mandoc is saved for later.
