I demand that Klaus Schmidinger may or may not have written...
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.
[ ...manpage_locale_independent.patch...]
Just wondering: is there a particular reason why you left out these:
--- vdr.1 2004/06/13 14:48:03 1.11
+++ vdr.1 2004/12/18 12:26:25
@@ -12,15 +12,15 @@
[ ... ]
-implements a complete digital Set-Top-Box and Video Recorder.
-It can work with signals received from satellites (DVB-S) as
-well as cable (DVB-C) and terrestrial (DVB-T) signals.
+implements a complete digital Set\-Top\-Box and Video Recorder.
+It can work with signals received from satellites (DVB\-S) as
+well as cable (DVB\-C) and terrestrial (DVB\-T) signals.
Yes. It's only those which really must be literal '-'s which need to be
escaped. (BTW, "set-top box" is correct.)
@@ -127,10 +127,10 @@
.TP
.B 1
An error has been detected which requires the DVB driver and \fBvdr\fR
-to be re-loaded.
+to be re\-loaded.
*That* hyphen should be removed.
[snip]
I guess a simple "change all '-' to '\-'" should be ok, shouldn't it?
No. Normal practice is to use '\-' only where ASCII '-' is required and '-'
where a hyphen is required. (I'm not sure what to do where a minus sign is
required, though: Unicode uses code point 0x2012 for this. Presumably
there's a *roff macro for it.)