[vdr] Re: [PATCH] vdr.1, vdr.5 and UTF-8

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Dr. Werner Fink wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 07:11:49PM +0100, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
>
> > Darren Salt wrote:
> >
> > > Even if vdr doesn't get along with UTF-8 locales, there's no reason why the
> > > man pages shouldn't be properly displayable in them. The attached patch 
> > > fixes
> > > this by escaping hyphens in option names and replacing non-ASCII characters
> > > with equivalent macros.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > diff -urNad vdr-1.3.15/vdr.1 /tmp/dpep.0MmCue/vdr-1.3.15/vdr.1
> > > --- vdr-1.3.15/vdr.1	2004-11-02 01:43:41.000000000 +0000
> > > +++ /tmp/dpep.0MmCue/vdr-1.3.15/vdr.1	2004-11-02 01:43:41.000000000 +0000
> > > @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
> > > .\"
> > > .TH vdr 1 "1 June 2003" "1.2.0" "Video Disk Recorder"
> > > .SH NAME
> > > -vdr - the Video Disk Recorder
> > > +vdr \- the Video Disk Recorder
> > > ...
> > > -\fBDescription.ger = Blautöne\fR
> > > +\fBDescription.ger = Blaut\(:one\fR
> > I can see why the umlaut ('ö') might be a problem and will replace it with
> > "oe". But what in the world is wrong with a simple '-'??? This _is_ a 7-bit
> > ASCII character, after all!
>
> Manual pages should _never_ use `-' without `\' ... not only for
> UTF-8 ... but for the roff interpreters.
>
>          Werner
But there's nothing wrong when I look at 'man vdr' - where's the problem?

Klaus