Re: Manual pages and UTF-8
On 2004-03-29 14:17:52 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 01:51:26PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > And how about apostrophes? They get translated into some Unicode
> > character and searching for strings containing an apostrophe no
> > longer works.
>
> You can always use LC_CTYPE=C ... really, pagers ought to be educated.
I'm not sure I understand. If there are *real* Unicode characters
in man pages, would they still be displayed?
> You can use similar tricks to those in
> /usr/share/doc/groff/README.Debian on apostrophes if you like,
> though.
I use pod2man, so I don't think I can.
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