[PATCH] iso_8859-15.7: charset pages unification, minor cleanups

[PATCH] iso_8859-15.7: charset pages unification, minor cleanups

[Marko Myllynen]

- adjust references
- remove stray comments, streamline description
  (charsets(7) and Wikipedia provide more detailed
   and up-to-date description)
- cosmetics
---
 man7/iso_8859-15.7 |   29 +++++++++--------------------
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man7/iso_8859-15.7 b/man7/iso_8859-15.7
index 1175796..30cb655 100644
--- a/man7/iso_8859-15.7
+++ b/man7/iso_8859-15.7
@@ -24,27 +24,14 @@
 .\" %%%LICENSE_END
 .\"
 .TH ISO_8859-15 7 2014-02-16 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
-.nh
 .SH NAME
 iso_8859-15 \- ISO 8859-15 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).
-Especially important is
-ISO 8859-1, the "Latin Alphabet No. 1", which has become widely
-implemented and may already be seen as the de-facto standard ASCII
-replacement.
-However, it lacks the EURO symbol and does not fully
-cover Finnish and French.
-ISO 8859-15 is a modification of ISO 8859-1
-that covers these needs.
-.P
-ISO 8859-15 supports the following languages: Albanian, Basque, Breton,
-Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French,
-Frisian, Galician, German, Greenlandic, Icelandic, Irish Gaelic,
-Italian, Latin, Luxemburgish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Rhaeto-Romanic,
-Scottish Gaelic, Spanish, and Swedish.
+ISO 8859-15 encodes the
+characters used in many West European languages and adds the Euro sign.
 .SS ISO 8859 alphabets
 The full set of ISO 8859 alphabets includes:
 .TS
@@ -66,12 +53,10 @@ ISO 8859-15	West European languages (Latin-9)
 ISO 8859-16	Romanian (Latin-10)
 .TE
 .SS ISO 8859-15 characters
-The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859-15 (Latin-9),
-which are printable and unlisted in the
+The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859-15, 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 8859-15.
 .TS
 l l l c lp-1.
 Oct	Dec	Hex	Char	Description
@@ -173,6 +158,10 @@ _
 376	254	FE	þ	LATIN SMALL LETTER THORN
 377	255	FF	ÿ	LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS
 .TE
+.SH NOTES
+ISO 8859-15 is also known as Latin-9 (or sometimes as Latin-0).
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR ascii (7),
-.BR iso_8859-1 (7)
+.BR charsets (7),
+.BR iso_8859-1 (7),
+.BR utf-8 (7)
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Re: [PATCH] iso_8859-15.7: charset pages unification, minor cleanups

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

On 09/30/2014 12:30 PM, Marko Myllynen wrote:
> - adjust references
> - remove stray comments, streamline description
>   (charsets(7) and Wikipedia provide more detailed
>    and up-to-date description)
> - cosmetics


Thanks, Marko. Applied (for the moment, in a local branch).
(Patch did not apply cleanly, but I fixed it.)

Cheers,

Michael


> ---
>  man7/iso_8859-15.7 |   29 +++++++++--------------------
>  1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man7/iso_8859-15.7 b/man7/iso_8859-15.7
> index 1175796..30cb655 100644
> --- a/man7/iso_8859-15.7
> +++ b/man7/iso_8859-15.7
> @@ -24,27 +24,14 @@
>  .\" %%%LICENSE_END
>  .\"
>  .TH ISO_8859-15 7 2014-02-16 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
> -.nh
>  .SH NAME
>  iso_8859-15 \- ISO 8859-15 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).
> -Especially important is
> -ISO 8859-1, the "Latin Alphabet No. 1", which has become widely
> -implemented and may already be seen as the de-facto standard ASCII
> -replacement.
> -However, it lacks the EURO symbol and does not fully
> -cover Finnish and French.
> -ISO 8859-15 is a modification of ISO 8859-1
> -that covers these needs.
> -.P
> -ISO 8859-15 supports the following languages: Albanian, Basque, Breton,
> -Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French,
> -Frisian, Galician, German, Greenlandic, Icelandic, Irish Gaelic,
> -Italian, Latin, Luxemburgish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Rhaeto-Romanic,
> -Scottish Gaelic, Spanish, and Swedish.
> +ISO 8859-15 encodes the
> +characters used in many West European languages and adds the Euro sign.
>  .SS ISO 8859 alphabets
>  The full set of ISO 8859 alphabets includes:
>  .TS
> @@ -66,12 +53,10 @@ ISO 8859-15	West European languages (Latin-9)
>  ISO 8859-16	Romanian (Latin-10)
>  .TE
>  .SS ISO 8859-15 characters
> -The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859-15 (Latin-9),
> -which are printable and unlisted in the
> +The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859-15, 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 8859-15.
>  .TS
>  l l l c lp-1.
>  Oct	Dec	Hex	Char	Description
> @@ -173,6 +158,10 @@ _
>  376	254	FE	þ	LATIN SMALL LETTER THORN
>  377	255	FF	ÿ	LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS
>  .TE
> +.SH NOTES
> +ISO 8859-15 is also known as Latin-9 (or sometimes as Latin-0).
>  .SH SEE ALSO
>  .BR ascii (7),
> -.BR iso_8859-1 (7)
> +.BR charsets (7),
> +.BR iso_8859-1 (7),
> +.BR utf-8 (7)
> 


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