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Subject: conf/15150: French manpages without accents with FBSD man
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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:       
>Date-Required:
>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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