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Re: multilingual man pages
Kaixo!
[about utf-8 man pages I suppose]
> >> What has to be done with less? If LESSCHARSET=utf-8, it should handle
> >> utf-8 correct already.
The problem is not less, less works very well with utf-8 (at least latest
versions/patched versions of less do).
The problem is the program that formats the man pages: groff.
groff currently works correctl *only* with iso-8859-1 text files (it can
also use a few typographic chars outside of iso-8859-1, but it cannot
properly display a page in Polish, cyrillic, or any language that cannot
be written with iso-8859-1 only).
>> I have problems with bold Unicode characters (the famous
>> "XY Backspace XY" hack).
>
> This should be OK in SuSE Linux >= 7.3, I applied a small patch to
> less to fix this.
create a very simple man page in utf-8 with some chars like the euro,
a polish barred l, a ccedilla, a couple of greek and cyrillic chars,...
then try to call "man" to display that man page.
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