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-rw-r--r--chapter01/changelog.xml10
-rw-r--r--chapter06/man-db.xml10
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index 913a56649..195764315 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -37,6 +37,16 @@
-->
<listitem>
+ <para>March 30, 2006</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>[ken] - Correct my erroneous comment about UTF-8 locales in
+ Man-DB. Thanks to Alexander for explaining it.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
<para>March 29, 2006</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
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