Re: Man pages and UTF-8

[David Given <dg@cowlark.com>]

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Ben Finney wrote:
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> 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?

Well, I tried UTF-8 with the assumption that it would work, and it threw up a
lintian warning and produced gibberish when viewing the man page (with default
'man'). After searching the 'net I found this list in the LFS:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/6.2/chapter06/man-db.html

(See 6.45.2.)

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