[PATCH] utf-8.7: Drop an old comment about UTF-8 replacing ISO 8859

[PATCH] utf-8.7: Drop an old comment about UTF-8 replacing ISO 8859

[Marko Myllynen]

Hi,

I think it's safe to drop this forward-looking statement from the utf-8(7) page now.

>From 1d43dd645ac03eeb7815d641ca041e966d7bd333 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marko Myllynen <myllynen-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 16:35:09 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] utf-8.7: Drop an old comment about UTF-8 replacing ISO 8859

---
 man7/utf-8.7 |   10 +---------
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man7/utf-8.7 b/man7/utf-8.7
index bdf5468..65cabba 100644
--- a/man7/utf-8.7
+++ b/man7/utf-8.7
@@ -258,15 +258,6 @@ The corresponding return sequence from
 to ISO 2022 is ESC % @ ("\\x1b%@").
 Other ISO 2022 sequences (such as
 for switching the G0 and G1 sets) are not applicable in UTF-8 mode.
-.PP
-It can be hoped that in the foreseeable future,
-.B UTF-8
-will replace
-.B ASCII
-and
-.B ISO 8859
-at all levels as the common character encoding on POSIX systems,
-leading to a significantly richer environment for handling plain text.
 .SS Security
 The
 .BR Unicode " and " UCS
@@ -291,6 +282,7 @@ ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000, Unicode 3.1, RFC\ 3629, Plan 9.
 .\" .SH AUTHOR
 .\" Markus Kuhn <mgk25-kDbDZe0LBGWFxr2TtlUqVg@public.gmane.org>
 .SH SEE ALSO
+.BR locale (1),
 .BR nl_langinfo (3),
 .BR setlocale (3),
 .BR charsets (7),
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1.7.1

Thanks,

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Re: [PATCH] utf-8.7: Drop an old comment about UTF-8 replacing ISO 8859

[Markus Kuhn]

On 10/06/14 09:39, Marko Myllynen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think it's safe to drop this forward-looking statement from the utf-8(7) page now.

Indeed. Thanks,

Markus

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Re: [PATCH] utf-8.7: Drop an old comment about UTF-8 replacing ISO 8859

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

Hi Marko,

Thanks! Applied. But see one comment below.

On 06/10/2014 10:39 AM, Marko Myllynen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I think it's safe to drop this forward-looking statement from the utf-8(7) page now.
> 
>>From 1d43dd645ac03eeb7815d641ca041e966d7bd333 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Marko Myllynen <myllynen-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
> Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 16:35:09 +0300
> Subject: [PATCH] utf-8.7: Drop an old comment about UTF-8 replacing ISO 8859
> 
> ---
>  man7/utf-8.7 |   10 +---------
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man7/utf-8.7 b/man7/utf-8.7
> index bdf5468..65cabba 100644
> --- a/man7/utf-8.7
> +++ b/man7/utf-8.7
> @@ -258,15 +258,6 @@ The corresponding return sequence from
>  to ISO 2022 is ESC % @ ("\\x1b%@").
>  Other ISO 2022 sequences (such as
>  for switching the G0 and G1 sets) are not applicable in UTF-8 mode.
> -.PP
> -It can be hoped that in the foreseeable future,
> -.B UTF-8
> -will replace
> -.B ASCII
> -and
> -.B ISO 8859
> -at all levels as the common character encoding on POSIX systems,
> -leading to a significantly richer environment for handling plain text.
>  .SS Security
>  The
>  .BR Unicode " and " UCS
> @@ -291,6 +282,7 @@ ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000, Unicode 3.1, RFC\ 3629, Plan 9.
>  .\" .SH AUTHOR
>  .\" Markus Kuhn <mgk25-kDbDZe0LBGWFxr2TtlUqVg@public.gmane.org>
>  .SH SEE ALSO
> +.BR locale (1),

I prefer to have pieces like this noted in the change log (or even better,
since it's unrelated--send as a separate patch).

Cheers,

Michael


>  .BR nl_langinfo (3),
>  .BR setlocale (3),
>  .BR charsets (7),



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