On 09/30/2014 12:29 PM, Marko Myllynen wrote:
> - adjust references
> - remove stray comments, streamline description
> (charsets(7) and Wikipedia provide more detailed
> and up-to-date description)
> - cosmetics
Thanks, Marko. Patch fixed and applied (for the moment, in
a local branch).
Cheers,
Michael
> ---
> man7/iso_8859-1.7 | 37 +++++++++++--------------------------
> 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/man7/iso_8859-1.7 b/man7/iso_8859-1.7
> index 0a77a1a..d48819f 100644
> --- a/man7/iso_8859-1.7
> +++ b/man7/iso_8859-1.7
> @@ -25,25 +25,14 @@
> .\" Slightly rearranged, aeb, 950713
> .\" Updated, dpo, 990531
> .TH ISO_8859-1 7 2014-02-16 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
> -.nh
> .SH NAME
> iso_8859-1 \- ISO 8859-1 character set encoded in octal, decimal,
> and hexadecimal
> .SH DESCRIPTION
> The ISO 8859 standard includes several 8-bit extensions to the ASCII
> character set (also known as ISO 646-IRV).
> -Especially important is
> -ISO 8859-1, the "Latin Alphabet No. 1", which has become widely
> -implemented and may already be seen as the de-facto standard ASCII
> -replacement.
> -.P
> -ISO 8859-1 supports the following languages: Afrikaans, Basque,
> -Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Faeroese, Finnish, French, Galician,
> -German, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Scottish,
> -Spanish, and Swedish.
> -.P
> -Note that the ISO 8859-1 characters are also the first 256 characters
> -of ISO 10646 (Unicode).
> +ISO 8859-1 encodes the
> +characters used in many West European languages.
> .SS ISO 8859 alphabets
> The full set of ISO 8859 alphabets includes:
> .TS
> @@ -65,14 +54,12 @@ ISO 8859-15 West European languages (Latin-9)
> ISO 8859-16 Romanian (Latin-10)
> .TE
> .SS ISO 8859-1 characters
> -The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1),
> -which are printable and unlisted in the
> +The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859-1, which
> +are printable and unlisted in the
> .BR ascii (7)
> manual page.
> -.\" The fourth column will only show the proper glyphs
> -.\" in an environment configured for ISO 8859-1.
> .TS
> -l2 l2 l2 c2 lp-1.
> +l l l c lp-1.
> Oct Dec Hex Char Description
> _
> 240 160 A0 NO-BREAK SPACE
> @@ -88,7 +75,7 @@ _
> 252 170 AA ª FEMININE ORDINAL INDICATOR
> 253 171 AB « LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
> 254 172 AC ¬ NOT SIGN
> -255 173 AD SOFT HYPHEN (shown as a hyphen at line breaks) [1]
> +255 173 AD SOFT HYPHEN
> 256 174 AE ® REGISTERED SIGN
> 257 175 AF ¯ MACRON
> 260 176 B0 ° DEGREE SIGN
> @@ -172,12 +159,10 @@ _
> 376 254 FE þ LATIN SMALL LETTER THORN
> 377 255 FF ÿ LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS
> .TE
> -.IP [1] 4
> -See
> -.BR groff_char (7)
> -(soft hyphen) and the standard ISO 8859-1 ("shy",
> -paragraph 6.3.3)
> -or the equivalent version from your national standardization body.
> +.SH NOTES
> +ISO 8859-1 is also known as Latin-1.
> .SH SEE ALSO
> .BR ascii (7),
> -.BR iso_8859-15 (7)
> +.BR charsets (7),
> +.BR iso_8859-15 (7),
> +.BR utf-8 (7)
>
--
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
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