From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Dec 9 21:30:22 2002
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 2002-12-09 19:31 UTC:
> What I have now is: Man somehow "knows" (e.g. from the file .charset
> near the man page) what character encoding a man page is in, and also
> (e.g. from the users locale) what character encoding is desired.
> It does an iconv from man encoding to desired encoding and feeds
> that to nroff.
*roff always needs to be aware of it's input encoding, otherwise it has
no chance of predicting character display width (think of multi-byte
characters, double-width ideograms, combining characters).
In theory you are right. In practice most Russian man pages are in KOI-8.
And people view them today.
Andries
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