Re: UTF-8 manual pages

[Clytie Siddall <clytie riverland net au>]

Hi everyone :)

We've been discussing this on the Deb18n list. Debian is  
transitioning to UTF-8 manpages. The question of UTF-8 capable man- 
readers came up. I thought Yelp did support UTF-8, but it looks like  
it doesn't.

On 17/10/2007, at 6:29 PM, Ming Hua wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 06:03:34PM +0930, Clytie Siddall wrote:
> > Another note about Colin's original, and very well-thought-out  
> > post [about transitioning to UTF-8 manpages]:
> > I think Yelp _does_ support UTF-8. I'm pretty sure I tested my pilot
> > Vietnamese manpage in it (as well as groff-utf8) a year or two back.
>
> Actually I was thinking about this a few days ago too.  I just  
> tried for
> simplified Chinese (zh_CN):
>
> On up-to-date unstable with yelp 2.20.0-1 and man-db 2.5.0-3:
> The one-line description (in the search result page) is displayed
> correctly.  The manpage itself is not, I see Latin characters as if  
> the
> Chinese is literally parsed as ISO-8859-*.
>
> On a not-so-up-to-date unstable with yelp 2.18.1-1 and man-db 2.4.4-4:
> The one-line description is in English.  The manpage itself is broken
> too, but in a different way -- I see Chinese (and some Japanese)
> characters, but they are not what they are supposed to be, but just  
> some
> nonsense.  Something is wrong in the decoding-encoding process.
>
> I am testing in a en_US.UTF-8 locale, use "LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8 yelp" to
> start yelp.  The man page used is chsh(1), shipped in passwd package
> itself, and uses GB2312/GBK encoding.  If I use "LANG=zh_CN.GBK yelp"
> instead, everything is the same except that the one-line  
> description in
> up-to-date unstable is broken too (in yet a third way).
>
> Just a data point for anyone who is interested in more digging.
>
> Ming

I'm pretty sure I remember viewing my UTF-8 pilot Vietnamese manpage  
in Yelp, a couple of years back. Is Yelp currently capable of  
displaying UTF-8 manpages? If so, is there any special config you  
have to do? I know I had to set a number of values in my manconf to  
view my UTF-8 manpage.

If Yelp doesn't support UTF-8 manpages yet, is it likely to soon?

Naturally, I don't want a good GNOME app like Yelp looking bad in  
other projects. The idea! I want to wave the (foot) flag. :)

from Clytie

Vietnamese Free Software Translation Team
http://vnoss.net/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=projects:l10n

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