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* [PATCH] iso_8859-2.7: charset pages unification, minor cleanups
@ 2014-09-30 10:29 Marko Myllynen
       [not found] ` <542A8618.4080205-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Marko Myllynen @ 2014-09-30 10:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages); +Cc: linux-man, Lefteris Dimitroulakis

- adjust references
- remove stray comments, streamline description
  (charsets(7) and Wikipedia provide more detailed
   and up-to-date description)
- cosmetics
---
 man7/iso_8859-2.7 |   29 +++++++++--------------------
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man7/iso_8859-2.7 b/man7/iso_8859-2.7
index fa71433..3e04456 100644
--- a/man7/iso_8859-2.7
+++ b/man7/iso_8859-2.7
@@ -26,23 +26,14 @@
 .\" Slightly rearranged, aeb, 950713
 .\" Updated, dpo, 990531
 .TH ISO_8859-2 7 2014-02-16 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
-.nh
 .SH NAME
 iso_8859-2 \- ISO 8859-2 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).
-ISO 8859-2, the "Latin
-Alphabet No. 2" is used to encode Central and Eastern European Latin
-characters and is implemented by several program vendors.
-.P
-ISO 8859-2 supports the following languages: Albanian, Bosnian,
-Croatian, Czech, English, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Irish, Polish,
-Slovak, Slovenian, and Sorbian.
-.P
-Also note that the following Cyrillic-based languages have one-to-one
-transliterations to Latin 2: Macedonian and Serbian.
+ISO 8859-2 encodes the
+Latin characters used in many Central and East European languages.
 .SS ISO 8859 alphabets
 The full set of ISO 8859 alphabets includes:
 .TS
@@ -64,12 +55,10 @@ ISO 8859-15	West European languages (Latin-9)
 ISO 8859-16	Romanian (Latin-10)
 .TE
 .SS ISO 8859-2 characters
-The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859-2 (Latin-2),
-which are printable and unlisted in the
+The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859-2, 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 8859-2.
 .TS
 l l l c lp-1.
 Oct	Dec	Hex	Char	Description
@@ -171,11 +160,11 @@ _
 376	254	FE	ţ	LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH CEDILLA
 377	255	FF	˙	DOT ABOVE
 .TE
+.SH NOTES
+ISO 8859-2 is also known as Latin-2.
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR ascii (7),
+.BR charsets (7),
 .BR iso_8859-1 (7),
-.BR iso_8859-16 (7)

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