On Jan 23, 2008 10:59 AM, Dan McGee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 23, 2008 10:47 AM, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Jan 23, 2008 5:38 AM, Xavier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Aaron Griffin wrote: > > > > Hey guys, I tried contacting Andy directly but got no response, so I > > > > am going to run this by everyone else. > > > > > > > > I want to update the man package with a couple of changes: > > > > > > > > Remove -Tlatin from the nroff call, as nroff will autodetect the > > > > proper charset (this will help in displaying utf8 man pages), closing > > > > 7477 hopefully. > > > > Run configure with +fhs so that it thinks man pages are in > > > > /usr/share/man *first* > > > > > > > > Is this acceptable? > > > > > > > > > > Removing -Tlatin1 from the nroff call is apparently required for > > > displaying man pages correctly (eg pacman man page with ยด or localized > > > mplayer man page), so that change looks good to me. > > > And probably this should be done when the new filesystem is moved to core. > > > > This is all unrelated to filesystem moving to core. The filesystem > > change is regarding the LOCATION of man pages, this is regarding the > > ENCODING of man pages. They're very different issues. > > Um...we removed some MANLOCALE setting or something that was latin1 in > /etc/profile...so it is related. That is what is causing breakage too.
LESSCHARSET But that only affects less, and not man pages. It's a fine line, but I know at least a few people that don't use less as their MANPAGER
