From: Marko Myllynen <myllynen-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
To: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)"
<mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Cc: linux-man <linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org>,
Lefteris Dimitroulakis <edimitro-6VGm6rrshF0@public.gmane.org>
Subject: [PATCH] iso_8859-16.7: charset pages unification, minor cleanups
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 13:30:55 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <542A865F.1030302@redhat.com> (raw)
- adjust references
- remove stray comments, streamline description
(charsets(7) and Wikipedia provide more detailed
and up-to-date description)
- cosmetics
---
man7/iso_8859-16.7 | 31 +++++++++----------------------
1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man7/iso_8859-16.7 b/man7/iso_8859-16.7
index 3d72739..662e4aa 100644
--- a/man7/iso_8859-16.7
+++ b/man7/iso_8859-16.7
@@ -23,23 +23,14 @@
.\" %%%LICENSE_END
.\"
.TH ISO_8859-16 7 2014-02-16 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
-.nh
.SH NAME
iso_8859-16 \- ISO 8859-16 character set encoded in octal, decimal,
and hexadecimal
.SH DESCRIPTION
The ISO 8859 standard includes several 8-bit extensions to the ASCII
character set (also known as ISO 646-IRV).
-ISO 8859-16, the "Latin
-Alphabet No. 10" is used to encode Central and Eastern European Latin
-characters and is not implemented yet by any program vendors.
-.P
-ISO 8859-16 supports the following languages: Albanian, Bosnian,
-Croatian, English, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Irish, Polish,
-Romanian, Slovenian, and Serbian.
-.P
-Also note that the following Cyrillic-based languages have one-to-one
-transliterations to Latin 10: Macedonian and Serbian.
+ISO 8859-16 encodes the
+Latin characters used in Southeast European languages.
.SS ISO 8859 alphabets
The full set of ISO 8859 alphabets includes:
.TS
@@ -61,12 +52,10 @@ ISO 8859-15 West European languages (Latin-9)
ISO 8859-16 Romanian (Latin-10)
.TE
.SS ISO 8859-16 characters
-The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859-16 (Latin-10),
-which are printable and unlisted in the
+The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859-16, which
+are printable and unlisted in the
.BR ascii (7)
manual page.
-.\" The fourth column will only show the proper glyphs
-.\" in an environment configured for ISO 8859-16.
.TS
l l l c lp-1.
Oct Dec Hex Char Description
@@ -168,12 +157,10 @@ _
376 254 FE ț LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH COMMA BELOW
377 255 FF ÿ LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS
.TE
+.SH NOTES
+ISO 8859-16 is also known as Latin-10.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR ascii (7),
-.BR iso_8859-1 (7),
-.BR iso_8859-15 (7),
-.BR iso_8859-2 (7)
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2014-09-30 10:30 Marko Myllynen [this message]
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2014-10-01 9:24 ` [PATCH] iso_8859-16.7: charset pages unification, minor cleanups Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
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