Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 03:06:04 GMT From: Brennan Vincent <brennan@umanwizard.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/189095: big5 manual page is inaccurate. Message-ID: <201404290306.s3T3642Q081688@cgiserv.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201404290310.s3T3A0dl029524@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 189095 >Category: docs >Synopsis: big5 manual page is inaccurate. >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Apr 29 03:10:00 UTC 2014 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Brennan Vincent >Release: 10 >Organization: >Environment: >Description: The manual page states that "``Big Five'' is the de facto standard for encoding Traditional Chinese text." However, nowadays Unicode encodings like UTF-8 are often used, so it is incorrect to state that Big5 is the de-facto standard. The first Taiwanese website I chose at random is encoded in UTF-8: www.ltn.com.tw >How-To-Repeat: man 5 big5 >Fix: Change the text "the de facto standard for encoding" to "a standard for encoding". >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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