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Re: multilingual man pages
On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, David Starner wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 04:18:16PM +0000, Markus Kuhn wrote:
> > Groff works fine now in UTF-8 locales and can produce the entire
> > PostScript standard repertoire in UTF-8 plaintext. Try man groff_char for
> > a good demo.
>
> Which produces Latin-1 under my UTF-8 locales. Something in Debian's man
> setup?
Don't have access to a debian machine to check, but probably the same
trivial problem as Red Hat 7.1. Make sure that "man" calls the "nroff"
shell script (which checks the locale properly) and not "groff -Tlatin1"
(which obviously works only in ISO 8859-1 locales).
Markus
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