Re: viewing UTF-8 encoded man pages

[Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@xxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 01:15:34PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:

> Is someone aware of an easy way to view UTF-8 encoded man pages?
> So far, groff supports only Latin1 encoded input, i.e. it does not support
> Greek, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese etc. manpages.

Hmm. Long ago I added some code to man that sufficed to make some
Russian users happy. Forgot all details. See man-iconv.c.
(Maybe that threw in an invocation of iconv when reading the pages?)

Andries

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