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Re: [Groff] man page encoding
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Werner LEMBERG |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] man page encoding |
Date: |
Thu, 07 Jul 2005 11:04:24 +0200 (CEST) |
> > b) Recognize the encoding according to a note in the first line
> > '\" -*- coding: EUC-JP -*-
> > groff will then emit errors when it is fed input that is
> > non-ASCII and without coding: marker, so that man page
> > maintainers are notified that they need to add the coding:
> > marker.
>
> This looks like it would conflict with Emacs usage.
Why? This has been discussed already on the groff list: The plan is
indeed to allow emacs-like tagging of the file to set the encoding.
> I like the idea, but wouldn't it be more appropriate to make it into
> a groff request?
No. I plan to make groff accept only ASCII, latin-1 (for backwards
compatibility), and UTF8. The tag in the header makes groff call a
preprocessor which inserts a proper encoding filter.
Werner
- Re: [Groff] Re: man page encoding, (continued)
- Re: [Groff] Re: man page encoding, Andries Brouwer, 2005/07/08
- Re: [Groff] Re: man page encoding, Bruno Haible, 2005/07/08
- Re: [Groff] Re: man page encoding, Andries Brouwer, 2005/07/08
- Re: [Groff] Re: man page encoding, Werner LEMBERG, 2005/07/08
- Re: [Groff] Re: man page encoding, Bruno Haible, 2005/07/08
- Re: [Groff] Re: man page encoding, Werner LEMBERG, 2005/07/08
- Re: [Groff] Re: man page encoding, Zvezdan Petkovic, 2005/07/07
- Re: [Groff] Re: man page encoding, Werner LEMBERG, 2005/07/07
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- Re: [Groff] man page encoding, Bruno Haible, 2005/07/07
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- Re: [Groff] man page encoding, Bruno Haible, 2005/07/07
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- Re: [Groff] man page encoding, Andries Brouwer, 2005/07/07
- Re: [Groff] man page encoding, Werner LEMBERG, 2005/07/07
[Groff] Re: viewing UTF-8 encoded man pages, Bruno Haible, 2005/07/05
[Groff] Re: viewing UTF-8 encoded man pages, srintuar, 2005/07/06
[Groff] Re: viewing UTF-8 encoded man pages, srintuar, 2005/07/07