From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marko Myllynen Subject: [PATCH] utf-8.7: Drop an old comment about UTF-8 replacing ISO 8859 Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 11:39:37 +0300 Message-ID: <5396C449.5070509@redhat.com> Reply-To: myllynen-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: linux-man Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Markus Kuhn List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org 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 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 .SH SEE ALSO +.BR locale (1), .BR nl_langinfo (3), .BR setlocale (3), .BR charsets (7), -- 1.7.1 Thanks, -- Marko Myllynen -- 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