From abd90a679dd40a146ad4cbd0c49adb41a86fade5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ken Moffat Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 12:48:13 +0000 Subject: Port r7476 (correct erroneous Man-DB UTF-8 comment) from trunk. git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/branches/alphabetical/BOOK@7478 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- chapter01/changelog.xml | 10 ++++++++++ chapter06/man-db.xml | 10 ++++++---- 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml index d0cc537dd..b54b8727e 100644 --- a/chapter01/changelog.xml +++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml @@ -36,6 +36,16 @@ --> + + March 30, 2006 + + + [ken] - Correct my erroneous comment about UTF-8 locales in + Man-DB. Thanks to Alexander for explaining it. + + + + March 29, 2006 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 Some packages provide UTF-8 man pages which this version of man 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. + 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. cat >>convert-mans <<"EOF" #!/bin/sh -e -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf