On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 01:15:34PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: > Is someone aware of an easy way to view UTF-8 encoded man pages? > So far, groff supports only Latin1 encoded input, i.e. it does not support > Greek, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese etc. manpages.
Hmm. Long ago I added some code to man that sufficed to make some Russian users happy. Forgot all details. See man-iconv.c. (Maybe that threw in an invocation of iconv when reading the pages?) Andries -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
