From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Drop UTF-8 characters in manual pages
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:34:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070918093426.GA9216@glandium.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vd4wgwczs.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 02:15:35AM -0700, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> writes:
>
> > The default character encoding for english manual pages is ISO8859-1,
>
> On which distro?
Debian, at least, though transition to UTF-8 manpages is going to happen
(it seems there was a lack of proper encoding handling in man-db until
very recently)
> > so
> > UTF-8 characters are just displayed as their sequence of bytes, which is
> > not very appealing.
>
> Perhaps not. I cannot decide what to do with
> Documentation/git-pack-redundant.txt, though.
I'd say just use a transliterated form until man-db mess is sorted out.
Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-18 9:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-18 7:26 [PATCH] Drop UTF-8 characters in manual pages Mike Hommey
2007-09-18 9:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-18 9:34 ` Mike Hommey [this message]
2007-09-20 9:08 ` Lukas Sandström
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