From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Hommey Subject: Re: [PATCH] Drop UTF-8 characters in manual pages Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:34:26 +0200 Organization: glandium.org Message-ID: <20070918093426.GA9216@glandium.org> References: <11901003792475-git-send-email-mh@glandium.org> <7vd4wgwczs.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Sep 18 11:35:38 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IXZUV-000637-39 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:35:35 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756833AbXIRJf1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2007 05:35:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756725AbXIRJf1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2007 05:35:27 -0400 Received: from vawad.err.no ([85.19.200.177]:53700 "EHLO vawad.err.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756386AbXIRJfZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2007 05:35:25 -0400 Received: from aputeaux-153-1-18-194.w82-124.abo.wanadoo.fr ([82.124.60.194] helo=namakemono.glandium.org) by vawad.err.no with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1IXZUG-0001F5-V0; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:35:22 +0200 Received: from mh by namakemono.glandium.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IXZTO-0002QG-CY; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:34:26 +0200 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7vd4wgwczs.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> X-GPG-Fingerprint: A479 A824 265C B2A5 FC54 8D1E DE4B DA2C 54FD 2A58 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) X-Spam-Status: (score 0.0): Status=No hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none version=3.1.4 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 02:15:35AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Mike Hommey 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