On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> [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.
>
/me swears quietly at my earlier inability to test this correctly, and
wonders what I was smoking. Yes, a quick test using fi_FI.UTF-8 and
fi_FI for man 1 passwd shows that my current system (-without- the
converted pages) does not work for UTF-8, but in chroot (with
the conversion) both work. Colour me puzzled why it seemed to be
different yesterday, and thanks for the explanation below.
> 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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