Bug 80530 - man(1) should become Unicode aware
Summary: man(1) should become Unicode aware
Status: Open
Alias: None
Product: Base System
Classification: Unclassified
Component: bin (show other bugs)
Version: 5.4-STABLE
Hardware: Any Any
: Normal Affects Only Me
Assignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody)
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Reported: 2005-05-02 09:40 UTC by Matthias Andree
Modified: 2018-05-20 23:57 UTC (History)
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Description Matthias Andree 2005-05-02 09:40:10 UTC 
The man(1) utility allows some localization, by searching, for instance

  /usr/share/man/de_DE.ISO8859-1
  /usr/share/man/de.ISO8859-1
  /usr/share/man/en.ISO8859-1

Some languages however have several common encodings that are either upward
compatible or can be converted to a similar encoding with little (if any) loss
in information. For instance, German text can also losslessly(*) be represented
in ISO8859-2, ISO8859-15, several other ISO8859-* encodings and of course
UTF-8.

The man utility should be able to automatically convert between UTF-8 and the
installed ISO8859* representation, so that ports do not have to install the
manual pages for every common encoding.

(*) minor differences affect special characters such as the 1/4 1/2 3/4
ligatures or the EUR currency symbol (0xA9 in ISO8859-15).

Fix: 

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Comment 1 Volker Werth freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2008-03-12 02:22:13 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->suspended


Mark suspended awaiting patches.
Comment 2 Eitan Adler freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2018-05-20 23:57:04 UTC 
For bugs matching the following conditions:
- Status == In Progress
- Assignee == "bugs@FreeBSD.org"
- Last Modified Year <= 2017

Do
- Set Status to "Open"