Re: [PATCH] Drop UTF-8 characters in manual pages

Mike Hommey [off-list ref] writes:

The default character encoding for english manual pages is ISO8859-1,

On which distro?

so
UTF-8 characters are just displayed as their sequence of bytes, which is
not very appealing.

Perhaps not.  I cannot decide what to do with
Documentation/git-pack-redundant.txt, though.

On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 02:15:35AM -0700, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

Mike Hommey [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

The default character encoding for english manual pages is ISO8859-1,

On which distro?

Debian, at least, though transition to UTF-8 manpages is going to happen
(it seems there was a lack of proper encoding handling in man-db until
very recently)

quoted

so
UTF-8 characters are just displayed as their sequence of bytes, which is
not very appealing.

Perhaps not.  I cannot decide what to do with
Documentation/git-pack-redundant.txt, though.

I'd say just use a transliterated form until man-db mess is sorted out.

Mike

Junio C Hamano wrote:

Mike Hommey [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

so
UTF-8 characters are just displayed as their sequence of bytes, which is
not very appealing.

Perhaps not.  I cannot decide what to do with
Documentation/git-pack-redundant.txt, though.

These days when we have delta reusing and repacking is quite cheap,
I'd say just drop pack-redundant and its man page completely.

Of course, some pople might still be using it, but I haven't
felt the need for it in over a year.

/Lukas Sandström