[restored linux-man to CC] Hi Lefteris, On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Lefteris Dimitroulakis <edimitro@xxxxxx> wrote: > Στις Sunday 01 February 2009 12:13:42 ο/η Michael Kerrisk έγραψε: >> >> So, given that tis-620 and iso 8859-11 are nearly identical (as you >> note in the iso_8859-11.7 NOTES), I ask myself: do we really need both >> pages? Maybe there is a good reason, of which I am ignorant. Can you >> say something on this? >> > I' embedding here the answer I got from > Thanomsub Noppaburana <donga.nb@xxxxxxxxx> > ******************************************************************** > 2009/1/28 Lefteris Dimitroulakis <edimitro@xxxxxx>: >> ISO-8859-11 is it used also with your language or >> actually nobody is intrested since the difference >> with TIS-620 is only the "NO-BREAK SPACE" ?. >> > > In fact, we are still trying to replace the reference of TIS-620 to > ISO8859-11 especially in many parts of Linux, GNU programs and X.org > because we think that TIS-620-0 and ISO8859-11 are the same. > > E.g.: Lets look at the header of > /usr/share/fonts/encodings/iso8859-11.enc (may be in the other place): > > STARTENCODING iso8859-11 > ALIAS tis620-0 > ALIAS tis620.2529-1 > ALIAS tis620.2533-1 > ALIAS tis620.2533-0 > > The ugly thing: MS WIndows is always use it's Non-Standard encoding - > "Windows-874" for Thai. > > Cheers, > Donga. > *********************************************************************** > > So even thought the difference is minimal I think that some how it > should be a man page with the name tis-620.7 . > Maybe It could be an empty page pointing to iso_8859-11 as the latin.?.7 ? That would seem more reasonable. So, I'll create a tis-620.7 link page (like latin?.7) that points to iso_8859-11.7, with the latter having a note on the one character difference between the two. Okay? Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git man-pages online: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online_pages.html Found a bug? http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
