Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 23:12:03 +0100 (CET) From: jaco@titine.fr.eu.org To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: conf/15150: French manpages without accents with FBSD man Message-ID: <19991128221203.9B9EB148D1@titine.fr.eu.org>
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>Number: 15150
>Category: conf
>Synopsis: Taking encoding scheme latin1 into account
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
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>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sun Nov 28 14:20:01 PST 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Eric Jacoboni
>Release: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386
>Organization:
None
>Environment:
Genuine FBSD 3.3-STABLE, with LC_ALL=fr_FR.ISO_8859-1
>Description:
I'm translating manpages in french for the french docproj. The
translated manpage contains accents, but man refuse to take them into
account.
>How-To-Repeat:
Try to use man with a manpage with accents... see how they disappear.
>Fix:
I've noticed that the problem resides in the
/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/man/Makefile.inc file : the call to groff is hard coded
with the -Tascii option (same for neqn). I suspect that is the same with some
other programs...
At first glance, it seems that this option could be soft coded according to
the system environment. A solution could be :
Adding a new macro definition in /etc/make.conf (or other best fitted
config file), says :
ENCODING= ascii | latin1 | whatever...
Using this definition during compilation of various utilities.
For the man utility, just have to modify the two following lines in its
Makefile.inc :
nroff= /usr/bin/groff -S -Wall -mtty-char -Tascii -man
neqn= /usr/bin/eqn -Tascii
with :
nroff= /usr/bin/groff -S -Wall -mtty-char -T${ENCODING} -man
neqn= /usr/bin/eqn -T${ENCODING}
fix my problem (without the make.conf trick... i've just add a :
ENCODING=latin1
in the Makefile.inc in order to test my solution... ;-)
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