Re: multilingual man pages

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > Sounds complicated indeed. Why would you convert the man page
> > itself to UTF-8, when groff already has an option (-Tutf8) to
> > produce UTF-8 output?
> 
> That's not the problem.  The problem is it is *impossible* to know
> for sure what encoding is used in the source troff file; there is no
> charset=....  line.

The planned groff 2.0 will use the same syntax as Emacs to define the
input character set, i.e. the first line contains

  -*- coding: foo -*-

in a comment.  This info will then be forwarded to a preprocessor
which converts the man page to UTF-8.

> > I'd suggest:
> >   - Assume the manpages are in traditional format.
> 
> But what when utf-8 encoded pages will start to appear ?

As soon as groff supports UTF-8 as an input encoding.


    Werner
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