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

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

On 10/01/2014 11:05 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> 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).

Hi Marko,

I've now merged the local branch into main and pushed to kernel.org.
Thanks very much for your effort on this!

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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