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

[Darren Salt <linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk>]

I demand that Klaus Schmidinger may or may not have written...

> 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.
[snip]

> I can see why the umlaut ('ö') might be a problem and will replace it with
> "oe".

That'd probably do, though ideally it would be something which is interpreted
as "oe" where "ö" isn't available (much as "\(co" is, to either "(C)" or
"©").

> But what in the world is wrong with a simple '-'??? This _is_ a 7-bit ASCII
> character, after all!

So's \ :-)

In a UTF-8 environment, the *roff interpreter converts "-" into \xE2\x80\x90
(code point 0x2010) but leaves "\-" alone - and it's not unknown for people
to copy and paste from man pages :-)

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