Bug#207455: acknowledged by developer
Hi,
From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Subject: Re: Bug#207455: acknowledged by developer
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 01:20:12 +0100
> On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 08:32:59AM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:
> > Note that I think UTF-8 environment will not be popular until several
> > basic features (like manpages) will be UTF-8-ready.
>
> What's wrong with UTF-8 man pages? You can't *write* them in UTF-8,
> true, but they should be perfectly readable in such locales.
I cannot read Japanese manpage in ja_JP.UTF-8 locale.
It is because groff cannot know what encoding the manpage source
is written in. For example, Japanese manpage source is written in
EUC-JP, while groff try to interpret it as UTF-8 in UTF-8 locales.
Previously groff has a special workaround for UTF-8 only for
ISO-8859-1 environment. I.e., with "UTF-8 device", groff interprets
the input as ISO-8859-1 and outputs as UTF-8.
Like this, there are points where ISO-8859-1/15 people may misunderstand
that UTF-8 support is more mature than the real situation.
---
Tomohiro KUBOTA <kubota@debian.org>
http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/
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