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Re: viewing UTF-8 encoded man pages

To: linux-utf8@xxxxxxxxxxxx, Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: viewing UTF-8 encoded man pages
From: Bruno Haible <bruno@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 19:33:53 +0200
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Andries Brouwer wrote:
> 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?)

That worked because KOI8-R, like ISO-8859-1, consists of only 256 characters,
and they have all width 1. For Unicode in general, you need the other
trick contained in groff-utf8.tar.gz.

Bruno

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- Re: viewing UTF-8 encoded man pages
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