Hi Marko,
Thanks! Applied. But see one comment below.
On 06/10/2014 10:39 AM, Marko Myllynen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think it's safe to drop this forward-looking statement from the utf-8(7) page now.
>
>>From 1d43dd645ac03eeb7815d641ca041e966d7bd333 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Marko Myllynen <myllynen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 16:35:09 +0300
> Subject: [PATCH] utf-8.7: Drop an old comment about UTF-8 replacing ISO 8859
>
> ---
> man7/utf-8.7 | 10 +---------
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/man7/utf-8.7 b/man7/utf-8.7
> index bdf5468..65cabba 100644
> --- a/man7/utf-8.7
> +++ b/man7/utf-8.7
> @@ -258,15 +258,6 @@ The corresponding return sequence from
> to ISO 2022 is ESC % @ ("\\x1b%@").
> Other ISO 2022 sequences (such as
> for switching the G0 and G1 sets) are not applicable in UTF-8 mode.
> -.PP
> -It can be hoped that in the foreseeable future,
> -.B UTF-8
> -will replace
> -.B ASCII
> -and
> -.B ISO 8859
> -at all levels as the common character encoding on POSIX systems,
> -leading to a significantly richer environment for handling plain text.
> .SS Security
> The
> .BR Unicode " and " UCS
> @@ -291,6 +282,7 @@ ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000, Unicode 3.1, RFC\ 3629, Plan 9.
> .\" .SH AUTHOR
> .\" Markus Kuhn <mgk25@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> .SH SEE ALSO
> +.BR locale (1),
I prefer to have pieces like this noted in the change log (or even better,
since it's unrelated--send as a separate patch).
Cheers,
Michael
> .BR nl_langinfo (3),
> .BR setlocale (3),
> .BR charsets (7),
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Michael Kerrisk
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