From 7f6e6e913332a699e911f8fde816149d3b7ed235 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ken Moffat Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 12:23:20 +0000 Subject: Correct my wrong UTF-8 comment. git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@7476 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- chapter06/man-db.xml | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'chapter06') 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