From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Subject: Re: Converting man-pages to UTF-8 Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 08:41:45 +0100 Message-ID: <53006BB9.40604@gmail.com> References: <20140214114216.GE6397@riva.ucam.org> <52FE360B.9050302@gmail.com> <20140214163035.GF6397@riva.ucam.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20140214163035.GF6397-K2jUmMR1UYV4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Colin Watson Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, linux-man , Bruno Haible , Werner Lemberg , Peter Schiffer List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.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 -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- 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