From: Duncan de Wet <duncandewet-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
To: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org
Cc: linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: man 7 ascii confusion
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 17:45:18 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131122044518.GA11154@gmail.com> (raw)
Manpages version 3.44-0ubuntu1 distribution Linux Mint 15.
In man 7 ascii, there is the following sentence:
> Many 8-bit codes (such as ISO 8859-1, the Linux default character set)
> contain ASCII as their lower half.
Locales now use UTF-8 by default. This sentence should probably be
changed to something explaining how UTF-8 works, like:
> Many 8-bit codes contain ASCII as their lower half. The Linux default
> character set, UTF-8, fits thousands of characters through non-ASCII
> characters using more than one upper-half byte.
Or something like that, I'm no expert.
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Duncan de Wet
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2013-11-22 4:45 Duncan de Wet [this message]
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2014-02-26 10:06 ` man 7 ascii confusion Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
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