Re: Man page can't display correct chinese locale
Mike FABIAN <[email protected]>
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James Lin <[email protected]> さんは書きました: > I am having issues displaying Chinese manpage with encodings: UTF-8, GB2312 > and GB18030 when using nroff -man > > When I vi it, I can see the encoding fine, but by using nroff -man, all I > see is garble. groff-1.18.1.1 which we currently have in openSUSE 10.3 doesn't support any multibyte encodings *except* the Japanese encoding EUC-JP. It supports EUC-JP only because it contains a patch to support Japanese which is also used in Debian. This patch is not in the upstream groff though and it doesn't make much sense to include that patch upstream because this patch is not generic and only helps for Japanese. The latest version of upstream groff already has some support for UTF-8 though. But that alone doesn't imply that Japanese and Chinese is supported, to support Japanese and Chinese properly, not only support for a suitable encoding is required but also special formatting support (Japanese and Chinese don't have spaces between words, therefore you need different line breaking rules than in English). As far as I know, the latest upstream groff doesn't support proper formatting for Chinese and Japanese yet. I'll check out the latest groff again and see whether it makes sense to update. -- Mike FABIAN <[email protected]> http://www.suse.de/~mfabian 睡眠不足はいい仕事の敵だ。 I � Unicode -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]