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

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On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 02:15:35AM -0700, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Mike Hommey <mh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > 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)

> > 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
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