Bug#440420: [PROPOSAL] Manual page encoding

[Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>]

On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 01:02:33PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> +	  Manual pages that are installed under
> +	  <file>/usr/share/man/</file><var>ll</var>, where <var>ll</var>
> +	  is an ISO-639 language code, must be encoded with the usual
> +	  legacy (non-UTF-8) character set for that language
[...]
> +	  Manual pages that are installed under
> +	  <file>/usr/share/man/</file><var>locale</var>, where
> +	  <var>locale</var> is a full locale name listed in
> +	  <file>/usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED</file>, must be encoded with
> +	  the character set implied by that locale.
[...]

>   2. man-db 2.5.0-1 uploaded, including support for installing pages in
>      /usr/share/man/<ll>.<codeset>/ (e.g. /usr/share/man/fr.UTF-8). The
>      basename of this directory is not typically a well-formed locale,
>      but it is appropriate because it allows a clear specification of
>      the hierarchy's encoding while applying to all countries using that
>      language.

This part doesn't seem to be documented, or should the locale from the
second case also apply to the not well-formed locale <ll>.<codeset>?


Kurt