Re: Please keep an eye on manpage encoding issues (especially in etch).

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Subject: Re: Please keep an eye on manpage encoding issues (especially in etch).
From: Kobayashi Noritada <nori1@dolphin.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 14:18:37 +0900 (JST)
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From: Clytie Siddall <clytie@riverland.net.au>
Subject: Re: Please keep an eye on manpage encoding issues (especially in etch).
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 15:18:30 +1030

> > Manpage encoding issues are seen for some packages and for some
> > languages; some manpages are encoded in UTF-8 and unreadable in any
> > environment.
> 
> Can we specify the encoding in the manpage text in some way?

No, the input encoding is determined by the locale and input manpage
path, which is hard-coded in man-db's src/encodings.c.

-nori

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