Re: Converting man-pages to UTF-8

["Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On 02/14/2014 05:30 PM, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 04:28:11PM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>> Thanks for the extensive reply! One final point. For the pages that
>> have non-ASCII characters only in source comments, not in rendered
>> input source, does it matter whether or not the "coding:" tag is added?
>> I ask because, simply for documentary purposes, I'm wondering whether
>> we should add that tag only in the pages that have UTF-8 in the rendered
>> input.
> 
> I don't *believe* it will make a difference to groff's preconv, since
> all the other encodings people might be using will at worst only mangle
> UTF-8 characters in comments in ways that preserve their comment status.
> It might allow man-db to be marginally more efficient, but I think any
> difference would be negligible.

Thanks, Colin. Then, for now, I'm adding the "coding:" tag only to
pages with UTF-8 characters in the rendered text.

Cheers,

Michael



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