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| author | Jeremy Huntwork <jhuntwork@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2006-04-12 20:11:11 +0000 |
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| committer | Jeremy Huntwork <jhuntwork@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2006-04-12 20:11:11 +0000 |
| commit | a8e53b477546399a12acee7b27045ede715a6f42 (patch) | |
| tree | 27dccee6513c0ec6782faea4ea25872b7d4c238e /chapter06/man-db.xml | |
| parent | c1b231c94d20fb55feb1fe3d85c79db120132030 (diff) | |
Added a pointer to GDBM in Berkeley DB page.
Also added explanatory text concerning why LFS chose Debian's convention for storing man pages.
Thanks to Tushar Teredesai and Alexander Patrakov.
Resolves Ticket 1694.
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@7499 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
Diffstat (limited to 'chapter06/man-db.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter06/man-db.xml | 13 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/chapter06/man-db.xml b/chapter06/man-db.xml index e5de69912..17b05259b 100644 --- a/chapter06/man-db.xml +++ b/chapter06/man-db.xml @@ -157,9 +157,16 @@ install -m755 convert-mans /usr/bin</userinput></screen> (mostly 8-bit) encodings. This leads to incompatibility of packages with manual pages designed for different distributions.</para> - <para>LFS uses the same conventions as Debian. The relationship between - language codes and the expected encoding of manual pages is listed below. - Man-DB automatically converts them to the locale encoding while viewing.</para> + <para>LFS uses the same conventions as Debian. This was chosen because + Man-DB does not understand man pages stored in UTF-8. And, for our + purposes, Man-DB is preferable to Man as it works without extra + configuration in any locale. Lastly, as of now, there is no fully-working + implementation of the RedHat convention. RedHat's groff is known to + misformat text.</para> + + <para>The relationship between language codes and the expected encoding + of manual pages is listed below. Man-DB automatically converts them to + the locale encoding while viewing.</para> <!-- Origin: man-db-2.4.3/src/encodings.c --> <table> |