Changeset 7f6e6e9

Timestamp:

03/30/2006 12:23:20 PM (18 years ago)

Author:

Ken Moffat <ken@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.0-rc1, 10.1, 10.1-rc1, 11.0, 11.0-rc1, 11.0-rc2, 11.0-rc3, 11.1, 11.1-rc1, 11.2, 11.2-rc1, 11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 12.1, 12.1-rc1, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.5-systemd, 7.6, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.7-systemd, 7.8, 7.8-systemd, 7.9, 7.9-systemd, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, arm, bdubbs/gcc13, ml-11.0, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, s6-init, trunk, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/lfs-next, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/mips64el, xry111/pip3, xry111/rust-wip-20221008, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

3685bb6

Parents:

b0f889c

Message:

Correct my wrong UTF-8 comment.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@7476 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

Files:

• chapter01/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• chapter06/man-db.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter01/changelog.xml

@@ -36 +36 @@
     </listitem>
 -->
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para>March 30, 2006</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[ken] - Correct my erroneous comment about UTF-8 locales in
+          Man-DB.  Thanks to Alexander for explaining it.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
 
     <listitem>

chapter06/man-db.xml

@@ -120 +120 @@
     <command>man</command> is unable to display.  The following script will
     allow some of these to be converted into the expected encodings shown in
-    the table below. It will not help if you are using a UTF-8 locale.
-    Because this script  is intended for limited use during the system build,
-    for public data, we will not bother with error checking, nor use a
-    non-predictable temporary file name.</para>
+    the table below. Man-DB expects the manual pages to be in the encodings
+    in the table, and will convert them as necessary to the actual locale
+    encoding when it displays them, so that they will display in both UTF-8
+    and traditional locales.  Because this script is intended for limited use
+    during the system build, for public data, we will not bother with error
+    checking, nor use a non-predictable temporary file name.</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>cat &gt;&gt;convert-mans &lt;&lt;"EOF"