Re: Man pages and UTF-8

[Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam@benfinney.id.au>]

David Given <dg@cowlark.com> writes:

> Unfortunately, it would appear that using kanji characters in a man
> page is non-trivial as the encoding for English man pages seems to
> default to ISO-8859-1.

That sounds like a bug. I was under the impression that the default
encoding of everything in lenny was supposed to be UTF-8.

What tool is it that has this different default encoding?

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