Port r7476 (correct erroneous Man-DB UTF-8 comment) from trunk.

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/branches/udev_update/BOOK@7480 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/chapter06/man-db.xml b/chapter06/man-db.xml
index cbbe861d2..1b9c052c5 100644
--- a/chapter06/man-db.xml
+++ b/chapter06/man-db.xml
@@ -119,10 +119,12 @@ EOF</userinput></screen>
     <para>Some packages provide UTF-8 man pages which this version of
     <command>man</command> is unable to display.  The following script will
     allow some of these to be converted into the expected encodings shown in
-    the table below. It will not help if you are using a UTF-8 locale.
-    Because this script  is intended for limited use during the system build,
-    for public data, we will not bother with error checking, nor use a
-    non-predictable temporary file name.</para>
+    the table below. Man-DB expects the manual pages to be in the encodings
+    in the table, and will convert them as necessary to the actual locale
+    encoding when it displays them, so that they will display in both UTF-8
+    and traditional locales.  Because this script is intended for limited use
+    during the system build, for public data, we will not bother with error
+    checking, nor use a non-predictable temporary file name.</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>cat &gt;&gt;convert-mans &lt;&lt;"EOF"
 <literal>#!/bin/sh -e