From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Colin Watson Subject: Re: Converting man-pages to UTF-8 Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 16:30:35 +0000 Message-ID: <20140214163035.GF6397@riva.ucam.org> References: <20140214114216.GE6397@riva.ucam.org> <52FE360B.9050302@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <52FE360B.9050302-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Cc: linux-man , Bruno Haible , Werner Lemberg , Peter Schiffer List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 04:28:11PM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > Thanks for the extensive reply! One final point. For the pages that > have non-ASCII characters only in source comments, not in rendered > input source, does it matter whether or not the "coding:" tag is added? > I ask because, simply for documentary purposes, I'm wondering whether > we should add that tag only in the pages that have UTF-8 in the rendered > input. I don't *believe* it will make a difference to groff's preconv, since all the other encodings people might be using will at worst only mangle UTF-8 characters in comments in ways that preserve their comment status. It might allow man-db to be marginally more efficient, but I think any difference would be negligible. Regards, -- Colin Watson [cjwatson-8fiUuRrzOP0dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html