[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
+ the table below. It will not help if you are using a UTF-8 locale.
No, it will. Man-DB, unlike Man, expects the manual page to be in the encoding in the table below, even if this disagrees with the locale encoding. So in UTF-8 locales, a conversion from that encoding to the locale encoding will be performed by Man-DB. That's exactly the reason why Man-DB is in the book: it displays any standard-enough manual page in any locale without extra configuration. UTF-8 manual pages are just not standard enough.
Expecting some public documents (like manual pages) to be in the locale encoding is a stupid idea, because two different users with different locale encodings won't agree upon the expected encoding of a public document. Such documents have to be either tagged (currently impossible for manual pages, but required for HTML), or to be in the agreed-upon encoding (that's what Man-DB implements).
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