On 02/14/2014 05:30 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 04:28:11PM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >> Thanks for the extensive reply! One final point. For the pages that >> have non-ASCII characters only in source comments, not in rendered >> input source, does it matter whether or not the "coding:" tag is added? >> I ask because, simply for documentary purposes, I'm wondering whether >> we should add that tag only in the pages that have UTF-8 in the rendered >> input. > > I don't *believe* it will make a difference to groff's preconv, since > all the other encodings people might be using will at worst only mangle > UTF-8 characters in comments in ways that preserve their comment status. > It might allow man-db to be marginally more efficient, but I think any > difference would be negligible. Thanks, Colin. Then, for now, I'm adding the "coding:" tag only to pages with UTF-8 characters in the rendered text. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- 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
