On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 20:09:47 +0500 "Alexander E. Patrakov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Richard A Downing wrote: > > Can someone point me to the discussion thread that decided this > > change of man package? I want to review the reasons to make my own > > decision on it. > > There was no discussion thread. All reasons are explained in my > man-i18n.txt hint. I _really_ don't want to say "Drop all > non-ISO-8859-1 manual pages" (because I need Russian manual pages > that just can't be expressed in ISO-8859-1) or import the whole > "Hacks" section into LFS (because this would confuse Randy). > > > A quick archive search (+man-DB and then +man +Berkeley) didn't > > reveal anything useful other than it's a better fit for a UTF-8 > > system. I can see the thread about which db to use, but not the > > change to man-db from man. Personally, I have no other use for a DB > > and will probably stick with man. > > You are free to do so, but only because you use the en_US locale. > I use en_GB.iso-8859-15. I want to make it quite clear that I SUPPORT making the book UTF-8 enabled as fast as possible. I thought I had missed the discussion, and wanted to see the reasoning. Thanks. R. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
