Re: What's the character encoding of manpages?

2003-07-25 Thread Aaron Isotton
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 15:13:13 +0100, Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] claimed: [...] See groff_char(7). Technically it's Latin-1, but this is planned to change to UTF-8 for groff 2.0 (no schedule yet); groff_char(7) advises sticking to ASCII, and I agree. You can get everything in Latin-1 using

What's the character encoding of manpages?

2003-07-24 Thread Aaron Isotton
Hi, what are man pages, or more generally, groff documents, supposed to be encoded in? I didn't find any reference to that in groff(7). Is it ASCII? The problem arises because I have to transform a Docbook XML document into a manpage; there, all spaces (ASCII 0x20) inside a literallayout are

Re: What's the character encoding of manpages?

2003-07-24 Thread Michael Piefel
Am 24.07.03 um 15:55:43 schrieb Aaron Isotton: what are man pages, or more generally, groff documents, supposed to be encoded in? I didn't find any reference to that in groff(7). Is it ASCII? Preferably ASCII, yes. I seem to remember having once read that the input actually is in Latin-1.

Re: What's the character encoding of manpages?

2003-07-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 03:55:43PM +0200, Aaron Isotton wrote: what are man pages, or more generally, groff documents, supposed to be encoded in? I didn't find any reference to that in groff(7). Is it ASCII? See groff_char(7). Technically it's Latin-1, but this is planned to change to UTF-8

Re: What's the character encoding of manpages?

2003-07-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 04:24:51PM +0200, Michael Piefel wrote: Am 24.07.03 um 15:55:43 schrieb Aaron Isotton: what are man pages, or more generally, groff documents, supposed to be encoded in? I didn't find any reference to that in groff(7). Is it ASCII? Preferably ASCII, yes. I seem