Hi, the unicode(7) page will look more modern with few small changes, please see below. >From a3e9003950b6226b83ec319639bd8ecb9932275b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marko Myllynen <myllynen@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 17:03:38 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] unicode.7: update to reflect past developments - drop old BUGS section, editors cope with UTF-8 ok these days, and perhaps the state-of-the-art is better described elsewhere anyway than in a man page - drop old suggestion about avoiding combined characters - refer to LANANA for Linux zone, add registry file reference - drop a reference to an inactive/dead mailing list - update some reference URLs --- man7/unicode.7 | 43 ++++++++----------------------------------- 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-) diff --git a/man7/unicode.7 b/man7/unicode.7 index 3eb1054..2fd8407 100644 --- a/man7/unicode.7 +++ b/man7/unicode.7 @@ -213,14 +213,6 @@ and tells, how many positions (0\(en2) the cursor is advanced by the output of a character. .PP -Under Linux, in general only the BMP at implementation level 1 should -be used at the moment. -Up to two combining characters per base -character for certain scripts (in particular Thai) are also supported -by some UTF-8 terminal emulators and ISO 10646 fonts (level 2), but in -general precomposed characters should be preferred where available -(Unicode calls this -.BR "Normalization Form C" ). .SS Private area In the .BR BMP , @@ -232,8 +224,10 @@ range 0xe000 to 0xefff which can be used individually by any end-user and the Linux zone in the range 0xf000 to 0xf8ff where extensions are coordinated among all Linux users. The registry of the characters -assigned to the Linux zone is currently maintained by H. Peter Anvin -<Peter.Anvin@xxxxxxxxx>. +assigned to the Linux zone is maintained by LANANA and the registry +itself is +.I Documentation/unicode.txt +in the Linux kernel sources. .SS Literature .TP 0.2i * @@ -244,7 +238,7 @@ for Standardization, Geneva, 2000. This is the official specification of .BR UCS . -Available as a PDF file on CD-ROM from +Available from .UR http://www.iso.ch/ .UE . .TP @@ -267,7 +261,7 @@ which improved wide and multibyte character support even further. * Unicode Technical Reports. .RS -.UR http://www.unicode.org\:/unicode\:/reports/ +.UR http://www.unicode.org\:/reports/ .UE .RE .TP @@ -276,39 +270,18 @@ Markus Kuhn: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ for UNIX/Linux. .RS .UR http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk\:/~mgk25\:/unicode.html .UE - -Provides subscription information for the -.I linux-utf8 -mailing list, which is the best place to look for advice on using -Unicode under Linux. .RE .TP * Bruno Haible: Unicode HOWTO. .RS -.UR ftp://ftp.ilog.fr\:/pub\:/Users\:/haible\:/utf8\:/Unicode-HOWTO.html +.UR http://www.tldp.org\:/HOWTO\:/Unicode-HOWTO.html .UE .RE -.SH BUGS -When this man page was last revised, the GNU C Library support for -.B UTF-8 -locales was mature and XFree86 support was in an advanced state, but -work on making applications (most notably editors) suitable for use in -.B UTF-8 -locales was still fully in progress. -Current general -.B UCS -support under Linux usually provides for CJK double-width characters -and sometimes even simple overstriking combining characters, but -usually does not include support for scripts with right-to-left -writing direction or ligature substitution requirements such as -Hebrew, Arabic, or the Indic scripts. -These scripts are currently -supported only in certain GUI applications (HTML viewers, word processors) -with sophisticated text rendering engines. .\" .SH AUTHOR .\" Markus Kuhn <mgk25@xxxxxxxxxxxx> .SH SEE ALSO +.BR locale (1), .BR setlocale (3), .BR charsets (7), .BR utf-8 (7) -- 1.7.1 -- Marko Myllynen -- 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
