Egmont Koblinger wrote on 2005-07-08 06:28 UTC: > On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 08:16:29PM -0400, srintuar wrote: > > I would advocate going one step futher, and simply > > decree than henceforth all man pages will be in NFC UTF-8, period. > > I dont see supporting multiple legacy encodings as having much value.
Hear, hear! > Even mainstream English manual pages often contain the Latin-1 � (copyright) > sign, e.g. see the man pages of coreutils (cp, tail, ...). And all these are easily converted into UTF-8 by RPM build scripts, etc., calling iconv, even for unmaintained upstream packages where the original author has no interest in switching to UTF-8. Anyway, as soon as Debian (the final really widely used distribution still to do so) has also switched to UTF-8 by default, the entire issue of legacy encodings will become moot in the GNU/Linux world. This discussion would still have made sense for groff 36 months ago, but at the present rate of progress, there will be no legacy encodings left by the time groff finally has learned to switch between them ... Werner LEMBERG wrote on 2005-07-07 10:00 UTC: > In the last few years groff has become more compatible with > AT&T troff than it ever was. Does that include compatibility with the newer Plan 9 versions (which have been running entirely on UTF-8 for about 12 years)? A Unix port of Plan 9 troff is available under the Lucent Public License on http://swtch.com/plan9port/ Markus -- Markus Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ || CB3 0FD, Great Britain -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
