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Re: UTF-8 man pages



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Roger Leigh wrote:
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> 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.

I do know that Debian uses EUC-JP encoded man pages if you're in the Japanese
locale, so multibyte support does work (install man-db and do:

  man -l /usr/share/man/ja/man1/manpath.1.gz

), but that doesn't help me much in my English locale.

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