[PATCH] iso_8859-1.7: charset pages unification, minor cleanups

[Marko Myllynen <myllynen-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

- adjust references
- remove stray comments, streamline description
  (charsets(7) and Wikipedia provide more detailed
   and up-to-date description)
- cosmetics
---
 man7/iso_8859-1.7 |   37 +++++++++++--------------------------
 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man7/iso_8859-1.7 b/man7/iso_8859-1.7
index 0a77a1a..d48819f 100644
--- a/man7/iso_8859-1.7
+++ b/man7/iso_8859-1.7
@@ -25,25 +25,14 @@
 .\" Slightly rearranged, aeb, 950713
 .\" Updated, dpo, 990531
 .TH ISO_8859-1 7 2014-02-16 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
-.nh
 .SH NAME
 iso_8859-1 \- ISO 8859-1 character set encoded in octal, decimal,
 and hexadecimal
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 The ISO 8859 standard includes several 8-bit extensions to the ASCII
 character set (also known as ISO 646-IRV).
-Especially important is
-ISO 8859-1, the "Latin Alphabet No. 1", which has become widely
-implemented and may already be seen as the de-facto standard ASCII
-replacement.
-.P
-ISO 8859-1 supports the following languages: Afrikaans, Basque,
-Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Faeroese, Finnish, French, Galician,
-German, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Scottish,
-Spanish, and Swedish.
-.P
-Note that the ISO 8859-1 characters are also the first 256 characters
-of ISO 10646 (Unicode).
+ISO 8859-1 encodes the
+characters used in many West European languages.
 .SS ISO 8859 alphabets
 The full set of ISO 8859 alphabets includes:
 .TS
@@ -65,14 +54,12 @@ ISO 8859-15	West European languages (Latin-9)
 ISO 8859-16	Romanian (Latin-10)
 .TE
 .SS ISO 8859-1 characters
-The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1),
-which are printable and unlisted in the
+The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859-1, which
+are printable and unlisted in the
 .BR ascii (7)
 manual page.
-.\" The fourth column will only show the proper glyphs
-.\" in an environment configured for ISO 8859-1.
 .TS
-l2 l2 l2 c2 lp-1.
+l l l c lp-1.
 Oct	Dec	Hex	Char	Description
 _
 240	160	A0	 	NO-BREAK SPACE
@@ -88,7 +75,7 @@ _
 252	170	AA	ª	FEMININE ORDINAL INDICATOR
 253	171	AB	«	LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
 254	172	AC	¬	NOT SIGN
-255	173	AD	­	SOFT HYPHEN (shown as a hyphen at line breaks) [1]
+255	173	AD	­	SOFT HYPHEN
 256	174	AE	®	REGISTERED SIGN
 257	175	AF	¯	MACRON
 260	176	B0	°	DEGREE SIGN
@@ -172,12 +159,10 @@ _
 376	254	FE	þ	LATIN SMALL LETTER THORN
 377	255	FF	ÿ	LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS
 .TE
-.IP [1] 4
-See
-.BR groff_char (7)
-(soft hyphen) and the standard ISO 8859-1 ("shy",
-paragraph 6.3.3)
-or the equivalent version from your national standardization body.
+.SH NOTES
+ISO 8859-1 is also known as Latin-1.
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR ascii (7),
-.BR iso_8859-15 (7)
+.BR charsets (7),
+.BR iso_8859-15 (7),
+.BR utf-8 (7)
-- 
1.7.1

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Marko Myllynen
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