David Given <dg@cowlark.com> writes: > I'm trying to package a simple tool that wants a Japanese string in its man > page. It would appear that currently, man pages use fixed encodings that vary > depending on which locale's man page is being looked up; English uses > ISO-8859-1, so it's not possible to use kanji in one. > > Various people on -mentors suggested that this was wrong as there was a plan > in place to convert to using UTF-8 throughout, and that I should bring this up > here; I can't find any references to such a plan on the 'net --- is there one? > What's its status? And what should I do to get my man page working? Unless things have changed recently, groff is still fixed to using 8-bit encodings. Until it can actually process UTF-8 input, using UTF-8 encoding would (IMO) create more problems than it solves. I would personally like to see this happen, but until it does we are limited (I believe) to the glyphs described in groff_char(7). I am not aware of any Japanese support at all except in specially-patched versions. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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