Re: Unicode and man/groff/less problems

[Ulrich Drepper]

Harald Alvestrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> the point may be that the subdir under /usr/share/man should be named by
> something that indicates character set (locale?) rather than just language?
> 
> 
> when we know where to find out what it is, converting is a bit easier....

But this would severely restrict authors of the man pages.  Put the
information about the encoding in the files.  This is what is, for
instance, done in .po files.

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