From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Subject: Re: [PATCH] utf-8.7: Drop an old comment about UTF-8 replacing ISO 8859 Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 16:49:56 +0200 Message-ID: <53971B14.4020107@gmail.com> References: <5396C449.5070509@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5396C449.5070509-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: myllynen-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, linux-man Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, "H. Peter Anvin" , Markus Kuhn List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org 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 > 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), 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