Re: UTF-8 manual pages

[Clytie Siddall <clytie@riverland.net.au>]

On 17/10/2007, at 6:29 PM, Ming Hua wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 06:03:34PM +0930, Clytie Siddall wrote:
> > Another note about Colin's original, and very well-thought-out post:
> > I think Yelp _does_ support UTF-8. I'm pretty sure I tested my pilot
> > Vietnamese manpage in it (as well as groff-utf8) a year or two back.
>
> Actually I was thinking about this a few days ago too.  I just  
> tried for
> simplified Chinese (zh_CN):
>
> On up-to-date unstable with yelp 2.20.0-1 and man-db 2.5.0-3:
> The one-line description (in the search result page) is displayed
> correctly.  The manpage itself is not, I see Latin characters as if  
> the
> Chinese is literally parsed as ISO-8859-*.
>
> On a not-so-up-to-date unstable with yelp 2.18.1-1 and man-db 2.4.4-4:
> The one-line description is in English.  The manpage itself is broken
> too, but in a different way -- I see Chinese (and some Japanese)
> characters, but they are not what they are supposed to be, but just  
> some
> nonsense.  Something is wrong in the decoding-encoding process.
>
> I am testing in a en_US.UTF-8 locale, use "LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8 yelp" to
> start yelp.  The man page used is chsh(1), shipped in passwd package
> itself, and uses GB2312/GBK encoding.  If I use "LANG=zh_CN.GBK yelp"
> instead, everything is the same except that the one-line  
> description in
> up-to-date unstable is broken too (in yet a third way).
>
> Just a data point for anyone who is interested in more digging.

Thanks for checking that, Ming. I do remember Yelp displaying my  
manpage, but it may have been a special build. I'll ask about this on  
the GNOME i18n list.

from Clytie

Vietnamese Free Software Translation Team
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