Bug#99933: second attempt at more comprehensive unicode policy

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

> > Not all of the statements made in that thread are not quite true,
> > and I seem to remember seeing some hacks done by Ukai-san on that
> > respect, for UTF-8.
> 
> Hmmm...could you elaborate?

I think our man-db and groff have been hacked in two ways:

1) to special-case japanese locale (ja_JP.eucJP) and 
act specially in that case only (using -Tnippon device)

2) to work with utf-8


I seem to remember 1 was the case in potato, or woody, breaking 
use under ja_JP.utf-8.
2 was on its way, when I checked the last time, but I am not sure.

I think Colin Watson should know better about the status...