* [PATCH] utf-8.7: Drop an old comment about UTF-8 replacing ISO 8859 @ 2014-06-10 8:39 Marko Myllynen [not found] ` <5396C449.5070509-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Marko Myllynen @ 2014-06-10 8:39 UTC (permalink / raw) To: linux-man; +Cc: H. Peter Anvin, Markus Kuhn 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 -- 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 ^ permalink raw reply related [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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* Re: [PATCH] utf-8.7: Drop an old comment about UTF-8 replacing ISO 8859 [not found] ` <5396C449.5070509-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> @ 2014-06-10 8:43 ` Markus Kuhn 2014-06-10 14:49 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) 1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Markus Kuhn @ 2014-06-10 8:43 UTC (permalink / raw) To: myllynen-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA, linux-man; +Cc: H. Peter Anvin On 10/06/14 09:39, Marko Myllynen wrote: > Hi, > > I think it's safe to drop this forward-looking statement from the utf-8(7) page now. Indeed. Thanks, Markus -- Markus Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ || CB3 0FD, Great Britain -- 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: [PATCH] utf-8.7: Drop an old comment about UTF-8 replacing ISO 8859 [not found] ` <5396C449.5070509-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> 2014-06-10 8:43 ` Markus Kuhn @ 2014-06-10 14:49 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) 1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) @ 2014-06-10 14:49 UTC (permalink / raw) To: myllynen-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA, linux-man Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w, H. Peter Anvin, Markus Kuhn Hi Marko, Thanks! Applied. But see one comment below. On 06/10/2014 10:39 AM, Marko Myllynen wrote: > 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), I prefer to have pieces like this noted in the change log (or even better, since it's unrelated--send as a separate patch). Cheers, Michael > .BR nl_langinfo (3), > .BR setlocale (3), > .BR charsets (7), -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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