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From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
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Subject: man(1) should become Unicode aware
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>Number:         80530
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       man(1) should become Unicode aware
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          suspended
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon May 02 08:40:10 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:    
>Last-Modified:  Wed Mar 12 02:23:20 UTC 2008
>Originator:     Matthias Andree
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD merlin.emma.line.org 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #28: Sun Apr 24 10:56:21 CEST 2005 toor@merlin.emma.line.org:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/MA5 i386


	
>Description:
The man(1) utility allows some localization, by searching, for instance

  /usr/share/man/de_DE.ISO8859-1
  /usr/share/man/de.ISO8859-1
  /usr/share/man/en.ISO8859-1

Some languages however have several common encodings that are either upward
compatible or can be converted to a similar encoding with little (if any) loss
in information. For instance, German text can also losslessly(*) be represented
in ISO8859-2, ISO8859-15, several other ISO8859-* encodings and of course
UTF-8.

The man utility should be able to automatically convert between UTF-8 and the
installed ISO8859* representation, so that ports do not have to install the
manual pages for every common encoding.

(*) minor differences affect special characters such as the 1/4 1/2 3/4
ligatures or the EUR currency symbol (0xA9 in ISO8859-15).
	
>How-To-Repeat:
	
>Fix:
See Description.
	
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->suspended 
State-Changed-By: vwe 
State-Changed-When: Wed Mar 12 02:22:13 UTC 2008 
State-Changed-Why:  

Mark suspended awaiting patches. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=80530 
>Unformatted:
