From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Subject: Re: [PATCH] ascii.7: charset pages unification, minor cleanups Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 11:05:37 +0200 Message-ID: <542BC3E1.4070807@gmail.com> References: <542A85F7.60603@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <542A85F7.60603-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: myllynen-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, linux-man , Lefteris Dimitroulakis List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.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 @@ > .\" . > .\" %%%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), > -- 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