> 2. export LANG=ga_IE
>    cal 3 2001
>    (Segmentation faults)

Only with some ancient version of util-linux.

> There should indeed be a designated encoding for the man pages,

Almost no pages use non-ASCII characters. And if they do, it is
mostly in comments giving names of contributors.
Disregarding troff comments, there are only 7 non-ASCII pages in the
man-pages package:

man2/time.2: from UTC equivalent to conversion on the naïve basis that leap
man3/printf.3: .if \w'\*(Pm'=0 .ds Pm ±
man7/glob.7: to `[aáàäâ]' (warning: Latin-1 here), that is,
man7/iso_8859-1.7
man7/iso_8859-15.7
man7/iso_8859-2.7
man7/iso_8859-7.7

Andries
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