Re: thai tis-620.7 man page

Re: thai tis-620.7 man page

[Michael Kerrisk]

Hi Lefteris,

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Lefteris Dimitroulakis <edimitro-6VGm6rrshF0@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Here is the tis-620.7 man page along with
> screenshots from konqueror and xterm.
> xterm was used here because the zero width
> characters included in the man page was impossible
> to be displayed in the konsole.

So, given that tis-620 and iso 8859-11 are nearly identical (as you
note in the iso_8859-11.7 NOTES), I ask myself: do we really need both
pages?  Maybe there is a good reason, of which I am ignorant. Can you
say something on this?

Cheers,

Michael


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Re: thai tis-620.7 man page

[Michael Kerrisk]

[restored linux-man to CC]

Hi Lefteris,

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Lefteris Dimitroulakis <edimitro@tee.gr> wrote:
> Στις Sunday 01 February 2009 12:13:42 ο/η Michael Kerrisk έγραψε:
>>
>> So, given that tis-620 and iso 8859-11 are nearly identical (as you
>> note in the iso_8859-11.7 NOTES), I ask myself: do we really need both
>> pages?  Maybe there is a good reason, of which I am ignorant. Can you
>> say something on this?
>>
> I' embedding here the answer I got from
> Thanomsub Noppaburana <donga.nb-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
> ********************************************************************
> 2009/1/28 Lefteris Dimitroulakis <edimitro-6VGm6rrshF0@public.gmane.org>:
>> ISO-8859-11 is it used also with your language or
>> actually nobody is intrested since the difference
>> with TIS-620 is only the "NO-BREAK SPACE" ?.
>>
>
> In fact, we are still trying to replace the reference of TIS-620 to
> ISO8859-11 especially in many parts of Linux, GNU programs and X.org
> because we think that TIS-620-0 and ISO8859-11 are the same.
>
> E.g.: Lets look at the header of
> /usr/share/fonts/encodings/iso8859-11.enc (may be in the other place):
>
> STARTENCODING iso8859-11
> ALIAS tis620-0
> ALIAS tis620.2529-1
> ALIAS tis620.2533-1
> ALIAS tis620.2533-0
>
> The ugly thing: MS WIndows is always use it's Non-Standard encoding -
> "Windows-874" for Thai.
>
> Cheers,
> Donga.
> ***********************************************************************
>
> So even thought the difference is minimal I think that some how it
> should be a man page with the name tis-620.7 .
> Maybe It could be an empty page pointing to iso_8859-11 as the latin.?.7 ?

That would seem more reasonable.  So, I'll create a tis-620.7 link
page (like latin?.7) that points to iso_8859-11.7, with the latter
having a note on the one character difference between the two.  Okay?

Cheers,

Michael

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Re: thai tis-620.7 man page

[Lefteris Dimitroulakis]

Στις Sunday 01 February 2009 13:14:07 ο/η Michael Kerrisk έγραψε:
> [restored linux-man to CC]
> 
> 
> That would seem more reasonable.  So, I'll create a tis-620.7 link
> page (like latin?.7) that points to iso_8859-11.7, with the latter
> having a note on the one character difference between the two.  Okay?
> 
That should be perfect Michael. Please proceed.

thanks
Lefteris

 


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Re: thai tis-620.7 man page

[Michael Kerrisk]

2009/2/2 Lefteris Dimitroulakis <edimitro-6VGm6rrshF0@public.gmane.org>:
> Στις Sunday 01 February 2009 13:14:07 ο/η Michael Kerrisk έγραψε:
>> [restored linux-man to CC]
>>
>>
>> That would seem more reasonable.  So, I'll create a tis-620.7 link
>> page (like latin?.7) that points to iso_8859-11.7, with the latter
>> having a note on the one character difference between the two.  Okay?
>>
> That should be perfect Michael. Please proceed.

Okay -- done.

Cheers,

Michael
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