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

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

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).

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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