Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:36:34 +0300 From: Gleb Kozyrev <gkozyrev@gmail.com> To: rick-freebsd2008@kiwi-computer.com Cc: Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: man and UTF-8 locales Message-ID: <ca661e8a0908260636m442f6d3ewe0e2e490c4c7f00@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090825232212.GA48012@keira.kiwi-computer.com> References: <01895862@bb.ipt.ru> <86ab1pf8rj.fsf@gmail.com> <53729554@bb.ipt.ru> <20090825210719.GB46753@keira.kiwi-computer.com> <91153350@h30.sp.ipt.ru> <20090825232212.GA48012@keira.kiwi-computer.com>
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On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 2:22 AM, Rick C. Petty<rick-freebsd2008@kiwi-computer.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 02:06:33AM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote: >> On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:07:19 -0500 Rick C. Petty wrote: >> > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 03:03:41PM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote: >> > > On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:59:12 +0400 Anonymous wrote: >> > > > Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru> writes: >> > > >> > > > > Manual pages are still broken for UTF-8 locale. Here is a part >> > > > > of bzip2(1): >> > > > > ftp://ftp.ipt.ru/pub/images/man_bzip2.gif >> =A0 =A0 =A0 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ =A0 =A0 =A0 [1] >> >> > It was already fixed on 2009-05-21 and MFC'd to 7-stable. >> >> This screen [1] was taken from 8-BETA3. [...] > % grep -C 3 sum contrib/groff/font/devutf8/R.proto > st =A0 =A0 =A024 =A0 =A0 =A00 =A0 =A0 =A0 0x220B > product 24 =A0 =A0 =A00 =A0 =A0 =A0 0x220F > coproduct =A0 =A0 =A0 24 =A0 =A0 =A00 =A0 =A0 =A0 0x2210 > sum =A0 =A0 24 =A0 =A0 =A00 =A0 =A0 =A0 0x2211 > \- =A0 =A0 =A024 =A0 =A0 =A00 =A0 =A0 =A0 0x002D > mi =A0 =A0 =A0" > -+ =A0 =A0 =A024 =A0 =A0 =A00 =A0 =A0 =A0 0x2213 Do all system manpages need converting to '\-'? It would take a lot of work= . The bzip2 one still has many plain '-'-s. >.B \-L --license -V --version >Display the software version, license terms and conditions. Looking at manpages from ports... smartctl(8) has all dashes replaced with '\-'. >\fBsmartctl\fP controls the Self\-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting >Technology (SMART) system built into many ATA\-3 and later ATA, IDE and >SCSI\-3 hard drives. What's the point of manually replacing one character with another everywher= e? perl(1) has only some dashes replaced but plain '-'-s still aren't mangled somehow, so this actually looks fine: >.IP "\(bu" 4 >roll-your-own magic variables (including multiple simultaneous \s-1DBM\s0 >implementations) Can anyone comment on this? >From contrib/groff/font/devutf8/R.proto: >- 24 0 0x2010 Please note that Windows fonts seem to lack the 0x2010 character so this is= sue may raise many questions in the future. --=20 With best regards, Gleb Kozyrev.
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