[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:
>> 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.
>>>> [ ...manpage_locale_independent.patch...]
>>> Just wondering: is there a particular reason why you left out these:
[snip]
>> Yes. It's only those which really must be literal '-'s which need to be
>> escaped. (BTW, "set-top box" is correct.)
[snip]
>>> I guess a simple "change all '-' to '\-'" should be ok, shouldn't it?

>> No. Normal practice is to use '\-' only where ASCII '-' is required and
>> '-' where a hyphen is required. (I'm not sure what to do where a minus
>> sign is required, though: Unicode uses code point 0x2012 for this.
>> Presumably there's a *roff macro for it.)

> To be honest, I find it a little confusing having to distinguish between
> normal '-', "hyphen" and "minus" - they're all the same to me.

They are, in most 8-bit encodings of which I'm aware.

> So, does it hurt if _all_ '-' are escaped? And I mean, does it _really_
> hurt? If not, I'll just escape _all_ '-' characters.

There's something else to consider: '\-' is non-breaking whereas '-' isn't,
as the attached file, when viewed via 'man -l', demonstrates.

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