From: Thomas Goirand <thomas@goirand.fr>
To: mlmmj@mlmmj.org
Subject: Re: [mlmmj] [patch] man page fixes
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:11:26 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F1D081E.7070608@goirand.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F1BD224.40908@goirand.fr>
On 01/23/2012 08:37 AM, Ben Schmidt wrote:
> Just a little
> tricky for me to apply old patches.
For these man pages, my intention was to point at the issues, and make
sure they don't re-occur, because really, this has been recurrent with
MLMMJ.
> It seems Debian is non-standard in requiring UTF-8 man pages, as Groff
> does not support UTF-8 input:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/manual/html_node/Input-Encodings.html
From the same page:
"By its very nature, -Tutf8 supports all input encodings"
So it's absolutely standard (and recommended).
> So I'll replace ø with \[/o] and everything should be good, though a
> little ugly.
I'm happy if you've found a solution, however, I still think UTF-8 is
the only choice.
Thomas
P.S: Please do *not* Cc: me, I'm registered to the list.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-23 7:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-22 9:08 [mlmmj] [patch] man page fixes Thomas Goirand
2012-01-22 13:56 ` Ben Schmidt
2012-01-22 19:13 ` Thomas Goirand
2012-01-23 0:37 ` Ben Schmidt
2012-01-23 2:06 ` Ben Schmidt
2012-01-23 7:11 ` Thomas Goirand [this message]
2012-01-23 16:39 ` Ben Schmidt
2012-01-24 6:17 ` Mads Martin Jørgensen
2012-01-27 4:47 ` Thomas Goirand
2012-01-27 5:37 ` Ben Schmidt
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