Re: Putting accented characters in manpages?
On 06.10.05 Romain Beauxis (toots@rastageeks.org) wrote:
> Le Jeudi 6 Octobre 2005 06:57, Rogério Brito a écrit :
Hi all,
> > > W: pfb2t1c2pfb: manpage-has-errors-from-man
> > > usr/share/man/man1/pfb2t1c.1.gz /tmp/zmanpkICfH:25: warning: can't find
> > > numbered character 243
> > >
> > > . It is probably caused by the special characters in your name, which
> > > were put unencoded into the man page.
>
> I had the same issue for a manpage too. I discovered that you can
> put those caracters in a special encoding like I did:
>
> .SH AUTHOR
> This manual page was written by Lo\[:i]c Le Guyader
> <loic.leguyader@laposte.net>,
> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
>
> It works with the command line man, but not with kde's man viewer.
> And I can't remeber where I found this... sorry
>
Seems to be working. At least man(1) does it.
On 06.10.05 Darren Salt (linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 19:24:45 +0100
> From: Darren Salt <linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk>
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> Subject: Re: Putting accented characters in manpages?
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> groff_char(7) seems likely. I find that \(zz works (for arbitrary
> \zz given in [zz]) with man and xman, although I have no idea
> \whether this works in KDE's man viewer.
>
> For character 243, you want "\['o]" or "\('o".
>
This is the theoretical background. Thanks for pointing out. I guess
if the \[xxx] does not work it is rather a bug in the man page viewer
of KDE.
Thanks to you both!
Hilmar
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