UTF-8 problem in 8.0
Sean C. Farley
scf at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jan 4 21:39:11 UTC 2010
On Sun, 3 Jan 2010, Derek Kulinski wrote:
> Hello Sean,
>
> Sunday, January 3, 2010, 9:03:01 AM, you wrote:
>
>> The last commit that I recall (r192561) fixed dashes in front of
>> options (.Fl macro) but not dashes present within a man page.
>> Personally, I just create an alias for man to call 'LANG=C man' to
>> protect against examples with non-ASCII (U+002D) dashes.
>
>> Read the commit message[1] for a better explanation of unresolved
>> issues.
>
>> Sean
>> 1. http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=192561
>
> What caused this to be broken? Everything was fine up until 7.2 (or at
> least I didn't notice this earlier)
Previously (to some commit revision), man (nroff) did not have NLS
enabled, so the output was in ASCII.
Sean
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