Re: Putting accented characters in manpages?
On Don, 06 Okt 2005, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > So, I guess that's not only me that would benefit from some light from
> > people from debian-mentors on what is the best-current-practice on
> > getting accented characters on manpages.
>
> Basically, until UTF8 support is fully deployed for manpages (it isn't right
> now AFAIK), you have to refrain from using non-ASCII.
Well if the Name of the author contains latin1 characters, I would
suggest to include the letters. Otherwise it is just plain wrong.
Simple example: How to mention
Frank Küster
No, he is not called "Kuster", nor "Kuester", ...
Best wishes
Norbert
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