Werner LEMBERG wrote on 2001-04-10 23:23 UTC:
> Almost. They should also add
>
> \# -*- coding: utf8 -*-
>
> as the first line.
> Since no UTF-8 man pages yet exist I will pretend to be God, [...]
One of the things high on my to-do list is to update my old unicode(7)
and utf-8(7) man pages (the current ones date back to 1995-11 and people
complain that they reference Unicode 1.1). I would be very happy to make
heavy use of UTF-8 in the source code of these man pages, to demonstrate
the capabilities of UTF-8.
I also plan to write some man pages describing various well-established
Unicode subsets (such as WGL4) with annotated character lists so that
people have easily accessible UTF-8 documents from which they can cut &
paste the occasional technical symbol without having to worry about
redefining keyboards etc. I'll probably also write man pages describing
many of the more widely used legacy character sets (e.g. iso-8859(7),
ms-codepages(7)), showing tables with their characters in UTF-8.
If you can supply me with a man and groff combination that handles UTF-8
source man pages well, I'll submit some native UTF-8 man pages to
justify the effort rather soon.
Markus
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Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
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