Changeset 3d3e2f7

Timestamp:

01/21/2007 07:12:16 AM (17 years ago)

Author:

Alexander E. Patrakov <alexander@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 6.2, 6.2.0, 6.2.0-rc1, 6.2.0-rc2, 6.3, 6.3-rc1, 6.3-rc2, 6.3-rc3, 7.10, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.6-blfs, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, gnome, kde5-13430, kde5-14269, kde5-14686, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, krejzi/svn, lazarus, lxqt, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, systemd-11177, systemd-13485, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

da96398

Parents:

c5fb8c3

Message:

Improved wording for the UTF-8 manual page sed in xscreensaver

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@6442 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

• general/genutils/xscreensaver.xml (modified) (1 diff)

general/genutils/xscreensaver.xml

@@ -117 +117 @@
 
     <para><command>sed -i 's,\xc3\xb6,oe,' hacks/flow.man</command>: This
-    command is used to remove UTF-8 encoding from one of the installed
-    manual pages.</para>
+    command replaces the UTF-8 encoded character <quote>&ouml;</quote>
+    with its ASCII equivalent <quote>oe</quote> in one of the installed
+    manual pages. Without this, <application>Man-DB</application> would
+    interpret these two bytes as ISO-8859-1, resulting in
+    the wrong <quote>&Atilde;&para;</quote> characters.</para>
+    <!-- The sed is not needed for xscreensaver-5.0.1, and the manual page
+    has the "oe" characters there. -->
 
     <para><option>--with-setuid-hacks</option>: This switch allows some