Re: Manual pages and UTF-8
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 03:37:11PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> 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?
No. Direct Unicode groff input isn't supported anyway, mind you, and the
whole system is a bit of a house of cards there ...
> > 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.
pod2man doesn't preclude this. It's only configuration for your local
system.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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