Re: [PATCH] ascii.7: charset pages unification, minor cleanups

Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2014-10-01T10:07:49Z

On 10/01/2014 11:05 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> On 09/30/2014 12:29 PM, Marko Myllynen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> this and the follow-up patches will provide unification of charset
>> pages, minor cleanups, and some unifying cosmetic changes. References
>> are adjusted so that all pages include a reference to charsets(7)
>> which contains description of these sets, stray comments are removed,
>> some obsolete statements (like ISO 8859-1 being the de-facto ASCII
>> replacement..) are removed, and some minor reformatting to minimize
>> diff's between the pages are done.
>>
>> The actual substance, the character tables, remain unchanged.
>>
>> This series changes the following pages (under man7): ascii, armscii,
>> cp1251, koi8-r, koi8-u, and all of iso_8859-*. Also adds a new page
>> for cp1252.
>>
>> CC'ing Lefteris who contributed many of these pages.
>
> Thanks, Marko. Applied (for the moment, in a local branch).

Hi Marko,

I've now merged the local branch into main and pushed to kernel.org.
Thanks very much for your effort on this!

Cheers,

Michael

>> -----
>> - adjust references
>> - add null char description
>> - cosmetics
>> ---
>> man7/ascii.7 | 14 ++++++++------
>> 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/man7/ascii.7 b/man7/ascii.7
>> index f17c256..12375d9 100644
>> --- a/man7/ascii.7
>> +++ b/man7/ascii.7
>> @@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
>> '\" t
>> .\" Copyright (c) 1993 Michael Haardt (michael-8s1n8bisGiQ@public.gmane.org)
>> -.\" Created Fri Apr 2 11:32:09 MET DST 1993
>> .\"
>> .\" %%%LICENSE_START(GPLv2+_DOC_FULL)
>> .\" This is free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or
>> @@ -23,6 +22,7 @@
>> .\" <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
>> .\" %%%LICENSE_END
>> .\"
>> +.\" Created 1993-04-02 by Michael Haardt (michael-8s1n8bisGiQ@public.gmane.org)
>> .\" Modified 1993-07-24 by Rik Faith (faith-+5Oa3zvhR2o3uPMLIKxrzw@public.gmane.org)
>> .\" Modified 1994-05-15 by Daniel Quinlan (quinlan-7x81iamSd18S+FvcfC7Uqw@public.gmane.org)
>> .\" Modified 1994-11-22 by Daniel Quinlan (quinlan-7x81iamSd18S+FvcfC7Uqw@public.gmane.org)
>> @@ -34,12 +34,13 @@
>> .\"
>> .TH ASCII 7 2014-02-26 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
>> .SH NAME
>> -ascii \- ASCII character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal
>> +ascii \- ASCII character set encoded in octal, decimal,
>> +and hexadecimal
>> .SH DESCRIPTION
>> ASCII is the American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
>> It is a 7-bit code.
>> Many 8-bit codes (e.g., ISO 8859-1) contain ASCII as their lower half.
>> -The international counterpart of ASCII is known as ISO 646.
>> +The international counterpart of ASCII is known as ISO 646-IRV.
>> .LP
>> The following table contains the 128 ASCII characters.
>> .LP
>> @@ -51,7 +52,7 @@ C program \f(CW\(aq\eX\(aq\fP escapes are noted.
>> l l l l l l l l.
>> Oct Dec Hex Char Oct Dec Hex Char
>> _
>> -000 0 00 NUL \(aq\e0\(aq 100 64 40 @
>> +000 0 00 NUL \(aq\e0\(aq (null character) 100 64 40 @
>> 001 1 01 SOH (start of heading) 101 65 41 A
>> 002 2 02 STX (start of text) 102 66 42 B
>> 003 3 03 ETX (end of text) 103 67 43 C
>> @@ -121,7 +122,7 @@ _
>> .ft P
>> \}
>> .SS Tables
>> -For convenience, let us give more compact tables in hex and decimal.
>> +For convenience, below are more compact tables in hex and decimal.
>> .sp
>> .nf
>> .if t \{\
>> @@ -182,9 +183,10 @@ Standards Institute (USASI) in 1968.
>> .\" U.S. member body of ISO; private and nonprofit.
>> .\"
>> .SH SEE ALSO
>> -.ad l
>> +.BR charsets (7),
>> .BR iso_8859-1 (7),
>> .BR iso_8859-10 (7),
>> +.BR iso_8859-11 (7),
>> .BR iso_8859-13 (7),
>> .BR iso_8859-14 (7),
>> .BR iso_8859-15 (7),
>>
>
>

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Michael Kerrisk
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