From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Duncan de Wet Subject: man 7 ascii confusion Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 17:45:18 +1300 Message-ID: <20131122044518.GA11154@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org Cc: linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org 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. -- Duncan de Wet -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html