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Re: Unicode and man/groff/less problems

At 19:20 01/03/2001 +0000, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
Thu, 1 Mar 2001 19:41:58 +0100 (MET), Andries.Brouwer@xxxxxx <Andries.Brouwer@xxxxxx> pisze:

> Almost no pages use non-ASCII characters. And if they do, it is
> mostly in comments giving names of contributors.
> Disregarding troff comments, there are only 7 non-ASCII pages in the
> man-pages package:

[qrczak ~]$ find /usr/share/man/pl -type f | wc -l
    149

They are ISO-8859-2. And there is more of them, I don't know how much
(my system is far from any vanilla distribution).

the point may be that the subdir under /usr/share/man should be named by something that indicates character set (locale?) rather than just language?

when we know where to find out what it is, converting is a bit easier....


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