Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 18:13:07 +0200 From: Benjamin Lutz <mail@maxlor.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: man(1) and locale codeset Message-ID: <200610091813.10453.mail@maxlor.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hello, While investigating how to get proper quotes in manpages (proper as explained here: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html) I found that groff outputs correct quote characters (well, for single quotation marks anyway) with -Tutf8. When looking at the man(1) source code, I saw that the code contains support for specifying a -T parameter based on the codeset of the LC_ALL environment variable. See for example in /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/man/man/man.c: - line 99, definition of ltable. - line 956, appending of -T parameter to parameter list based on locale_opts. However, lines 1645-1646 and 1697-1698 (my src tree is from FreeBSD 6.2, in case the lines differ look for "locale_opts = NULL") disable locale codeset support completely, which cause man to revert to -Tascii. If I comment out those 4 lines, I get UTF-8 manpages with correct single quote characters. What is the reason behind disabling locale support like this? Could this be changed? Cheers Benjamin [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBFKnUWzZEjpyKHuQwRAvE8AJ0cs9xXNWBzMkZ5nV7O+gBUCutSdwCfXUIn Rngm07PUzDwYiqQLMWBCLgc= =9JFd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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