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Date:      Mon, 4 Jan 2010 15:39:09 -0600 (CST)
From:      "Sean C. Farley" <scf@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Derek Kulinski <takeda@takeda.tk>
Cc:        =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Ulrich_Sp=F6rlein?= <uqs@spoerlein.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-i18n@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: UTF-8 problem in 8.0
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1001041537500.59460@thor.farley.org>
In-Reply-To: <1606098274.20100103151236@takeda.tk>
References:  <1112548880.20100101154736@takeda.tk> <20100103013832.GL3508@acme.spoerlein.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1001031048060.5267@thor.farley.org> <1606098274.20100103151236@takeda.tk>

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On Sun, 3 Jan 2010, Derek Kulinski wrote:

> Hello Sean,
>
> Sunday, January 3, 2010, 9:03:01 AM, you wrote:
>
>> The last commit that I recall (r192561) fixed dashes in front of 
>> options (.Fl macro) but not dashes present within a man page. 
>> Personally, I just create an alias for man to call 'LANG=C man' to 
>> protect against examples with non-ASCII (U+002D) dashes.
>
>> Read the commit message[1] for a better explanation of unresolved 
>> issues.
>
>> Sean
>>    1. http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=192561
>
> What caused this to be broken? Everything was fine up until 7.2 (or at 
> least I didn't notice this earlier)

Previously (to some commit revision), man (nroff) did not have NLS 
enabled, so the output was in ASCII.

Sean
-- 
scf@FreeBSD.org



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