Re: [PATCH] man-pages-posix-2017/man1p/dd.1p: added missing ASCII-EBCDIC tables

[Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>]

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Hi Brian!

On 2023-08-13 23:01, Brian Inglis wrote:
> I have an OpenGroup/UNIX.org/Austin Group/POSIX account,
> so added the missing ASCII-EBCDIC tables by copying from the POSIX PDF,
> as copying data is fair use, and the man page copy itself is authorized.
> 
> As an aside to that, those ASCII-EBCDIC tables support characters from
> the old ISO 2033:1983 MICR/OCR character sets now in Unicode OCR block
> U+2440-U+245F, which appears only in a few fonts like Unifont and SIL
> LastResort (and MS Segoe UI Symbol), and are still available as TTF
> (some font formats and support are being dropped in favour of OTF).
> 
> They appear normal on my screen running 'man 1p dd' on my system which
> has those fallback fonts installed.
> 
> Is it sufficient to run the groff addition install-font.sh script on
> those fonts and add them to the config as .special, or is anything else
> required to register and render the glyphs on other devices?
> 
> Or should I take this up on the groff list? 

I guess Branden is reading this, so he'll be able to better answer you.
I have little clue of those things.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@Shaw.ca>
> Fixes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215971

Regarding the man-pages-posix project, I don't have in mind releasing any
soon.  In fact, I don't even maintain it, to be honest.  It just happens
that I'm the one with the keys to it.

The problem is that it's generated from scripts, and I don't know how that
project is organized.  I could try to get it working, but it would take
some work, and I don't feel motivated to do it.

And also, I don't even have the sources, which makes things more complex.

I wish that POSIX allowed us to have a copy of the original source code
of the POSIX manual in the git repository.  With that, I'd find it more
interesting to maintain the project again.

I'd also like to know what's the original source code of POSIX's manual,
because it may very well be roff(7).  If that happens to be true, I'd
like to have access to that source, instead of the HTML.

Would you mind forwarding my rage towards the Open group, which IMO is not
so open?

Thanks,
Alex

P.S.: Long live bzero(3p)!

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