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Re: Unicode conversion goals for Sarge (was Re: debian-changelog-file-uses-obsolete-national-charset)



On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 09:05:04AM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> Heck, if you ask me, Sarge should be known as the "we upgrade everyone
> to UTF-8" Debian release. This would imply that absolutely every
> package to be released in Sarge would know about legacy encodings for
> each locale and be able to recode every config file, man page,

Not possible. UTF-8 man pages are not yet supported by groff, and won't
be until groff 2.0.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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