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

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

[Marko Myllynen]

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

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

Marko,

This patch does not apply.

Could you take a look please.

Cheers,

Michael

On 09/30/2014 12:29 PM, Marko Myllynen wrote:
> - 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)
> 


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

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

On 10/01/2014 10:59 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> Marko,
> 
> This patch does not apply.
> 
> Could you take a look please.

Actually, don't worry. I found and fixed the breakage.

Cheers,

Michael


> On 09/30/2014 12:29 PM, Marko Myllynen wrote:
>> - 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)
>>
> 
> 


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

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

On 09/30/2014 12:29 PM, Marko Myllynen wrote:
> - adjust references
> - remove stray comments, streamline description
>   (charsets(7) and Wikipedia provide more detailed
>    and up-to-date description)
> - cosmetics

Thanks, Marko. Patch fixed and applied (for the moment, in 
a local branch).

Cheers,

Michael



> ---
>  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)
> 


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