Ken Moffat wrote:
> Looking at x7driver.html, I notice a humungous sed which ostensibly
> recodes some driver pages (for evdev, ati, fbdev, glint, newport) so
> that they are no longer in UTF-8 and can be displayed correctly by
> man-db. AFAIK, man-db is all about displaying manpages in both
> UTF-8 and legacy encodings. I only install evdev and ati, but man 4
> {evdev,ati,radeon} work perfectly in both rxvt-unicode and the
> console - without this messing around.
>
> Am I missing something ? Are the people using legacy encodings
> really going to have problems if we drop this ?
I think this is something that Alexander used to get real excited about
when using Russian encoding. I don't know if the seds are still
important or not. What happens if you don't use them?
-- Bruce
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