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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> |