Recoding non-UTF-8 documentation?

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Tue Feb 28 16:26:39 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 09:44 -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> >>>>> "PH" == Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> writes:
> 
> PH> Having the wrong encoding results in strange results when trying
> PH> to read the documentation.
> 
> So should packagers be expected to fix this?
Ask yourself: Do you expect readable man pages?

>   And does this apply to
> info documentation,
Do you mean "info files" or do you mean informational files in general?

>  or does it have special rules regarding encoding?
Originally, info were ASCII only. I am not sure if this still applies.

Ralf





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