Norbert Preining wrote: > On Don, 06 Okt 2005, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > So, I guess that's not only me that would benefit from some light from > > > people from debian-mentors on what is the best-current-practice on > > > getting accented characters on manpages. > > > > Basically, until UTF8 support is fully deployed for manpages (it isn't right > > now AFAIK), you have to refrain from using non-ASCII. > > Well if the Name of the author contains latin1 characters, I would > suggest to include the letters. Otherwise it is just plain wrong. > > Simple example: How to mention > Frank Küster > > No, he is not called "Kuster", nor "Kuester", ...
Since the umlaut originated as shorthand for a following e, it seems to me that Kuester is a valid (if archaic) spelling. I seem to remember that Branden's talk at Debconf, "WTFM: Write The Fine Manual", included some mention of non-ASCII characters near the end. It might be worth a look. -- Ben Hutchings All extremists should be taken out and shot. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
