Re: [gentoo-dev] UTF-8 encoding and file format of manuals

2006-06-04 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 01 June 2006 14:30, Josh Saddler wrote: Jan Kundrát wrote: Wiktor Wandachowicz wrote: Summing up: * UTF-8 manuals: good or bad? The Only Way To Go (tm), IMHO. Let's let the legacy encodings die in piece. Agreed. I'd like to see much more extensive use of Unicode throughout

Re: [gentoo-dev] UTF-8 encoding and file format of manuals

2006-06-02 Thread Tom Martin
On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 21:08:54 +0200 Paul de Vrieze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 01 June 2006 20:19, Jan Kundrát wrote: Wiktor Wandachowicz wrote: Summing up: * UTF-8 manuals: good or bad? The Only Way To Go (tm), IMHO. Let's let the legacy encodings die in piece. Would it

Re: [gentoo-dev] UTF-8 encoding and file format of manuals

2006-06-02 Thread Jan Kundrát
Paul de Vrieze wrote: Would it be possible to do automatic detection and unicode conversion in the portage install stage? I think that would probably be the best option. At a later stage a simple detection and warning might be sufficient. Tricky. You can parse a file and check if it's valid

[gentoo-dev] UTF-8 encoding and file format of manuals

2006-06-01 Thread Wiktor Wandachowicz
Respectful Gentoo developers, I would like to ask what do you think about UTF-8 encoded manual pages? I mean, the files like ls.1.gz, which are used by honorable man program. Recently I attacked the problem a little and before submitting any patches/proposals to Gentoo bugzilla I'd like to know

Re: [gentoo-dev] UTF-8 encoding and file format of manuals

2006-06-01 Thread Jan Kundrát
Wiktor Wandachowicz wrote: Summing up: * UTF-8 manuals: good or bad? The Only Way To Go (tm), IMHO. Let's let the legacy encodings die in piece. Any constructive comments are more than welcome! The very same problem exists with man-pages-cs (which are outdated as a bonus). Blésmrt, -jkt --

Re: [gentoo-dev] UTF-8 encoding and file format of manuals

2006-06-01 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Thursday 01 June 2006 20:19, Jan Kundrát wrote: Wiktor Wandachowicz wrote: Summing up: * UTF-8 manuals: good or bad? The Only Way To Go (tm), IMHO. Let's let the legacy encodings die in piece. Would it be possible to do automatic detection and unicode conversion in the portage install

Re: [gentoo-dev] UTF-8 encoding and file format of manuals

2006-06-01 Thread Mike Doty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul de Vrieze wrote: On Thursday 01 June 2006 20:19, Jan Kundrát wrote: Wiktor Wandachowicz wrote: Summing up: * UTF-8 manuals: good or bad? The Only Way To Go (tm), IMHO. Let's let the legacy encodings die in piece. Would it be possible to