Great - this is very nice news! Jens ----- "Jan Vcelak" <jvcelak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > thanks to great work of Daiki Ueno and Colin Watson, we are > reintroducing > Japanese support in groff and therefore in manual pages! > > Japanese was never supported by upstream. In the times of groff 1.18 > (released > in February 2002), there were very huge and unmaintainable patches > adding > Japanese. These were dropped with F13 and we switched to groff 1.20 > (released > in January 2009). > > groff-1.20.1-3.fc15 brings new set of patches created by Colin Watson, > who > added character class support; and Daiki Ueno, who made groff to > determine > glyph width using wcwidth(). Upstream has some remarks to these > patches, but > we hope we manage to get them included. > > I'm not aware of any other distribution using groff 1.20 with working > Japanese. Kudos to Fedora! ;-) > > -- > Jan VÄelÃk > Base Operating Systems Brno > Red Hat Inc. -- i18n mailing list i18n@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
