From: Marko Myllynen <myllynen-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
To: linux-man <linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa-VuQAYsv1563Yd54FQh9/CA@public.gmane.org>,
Markus Kuhn <mgk25-kDbDZe0LBGWFxr2TtlUqVg@public.gmane.org>
Subject: [PATCH] utf-8.7: Drop an old comment about UTF-8 replacing ISO 8859
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 11:39:37 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5396C449.5070509@redhat.com> (raw)
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-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
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-kDbDZe0LBGWFxr2TtlUqVg@public.gmane.org>
.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR locale (1),
.BR nl_langinfo (3),
.BR setlocale (3),
.BR charsets (7),
--
1.7.1
Thanks,
--
Marko Myllynen
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2014-06-10 8:39 Marko Myllynen [this message]
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2014-06-10 8:43 ` [PATCH] utf-8.7: Drop an old comment about UTF-8 replacing ISO 8859 Markus Kuhn
2014-06-10 14:49 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
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