Am Donnerstag, den 31.01.2008, 10:04 +0900 schrieb Charles Plessy: > Le Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 06:57:48PM +0100, Daniel Leidert a écrit : > > > > --param man.charmap.use.subset "0" > > > > to replace *all* special characters. Otherwise only a subset of the > > groff charmap is used and mandb might throw errors because of unknown > > characters. > > would it make sense to make this the default? It would factorize our > code a lot.
The authors of docbook-xsl chose to only use a subset for performance reasons. I don't think there is a chance to change this default. But I will talk to Michael Smith and ask for his opinion. I also don't want to change this for Debian only (just want to stay as close to upstream as possible). But I would vote for a debhelper script that takes care of XML and SGML sources. Unfortunately extending dh_installman would mean to add dependencies on xsltproc and docbook-xsl and this is AFAIK not wanted. So perhaps a simple small package (like xml-core) that offers this functionality and depends on xsltproc and docbook-xsl (+ a variant for SGML sources) would make sense. The upcoming xmlto package also sets this parameter. So you can also use xmlto (>= 0.0.20). Regards, Daniel
