[vdr] Re: [PATCH] vdr.1, vdr.5 and UTF-8

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

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.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> diff -urNad vdr-1.3.15/vdr.1 /tmp/dpep.0MmCue/vdr-1.3.15/vdr.1
> --- vdr-1.3.15/vdr.1	2004-11-02 01:43:41.000000000 +0000
> +++ /tmp/dpep.0MmCue/vdr-1.3.15/vdr.1	2004-11-02 01:43:41.000000000 +0000
> @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
>  .\"
>  .TH vdr 1 "1 June 2003" "1.2.0" "Video Disk Recorder"
>  .SH NAME
> -vdr - the Video Disk Recorder
> +vdr \- the Video Disk Recorder
>  ...
> -\fBDescription.ger = Blautöne\fR
> +\fBDescription.ger = Blaut\(:one\fR
I can see why the umlaut ('ö') might be a problem and will replace it with
"oe". But what in the world is wrong with a simple '-'??? This _is_ a 7-bit
ASCII character, after all!

Klaus