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Bug 137787

Summary: groff-utf8: a UTF-8 capable wrapper for GNU groff
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Ed Catmur <ed>
Component: New packagesAssignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: hiyuh.root
Priority: High    
Version: 2006.0   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://www.haible.de/bruno/packages-groff-utf8.html
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Attachments: groff-utf8-0.ebuild

Description Ed Catmur 2006-06-23 18:27:46 UTC
> Here is an extension of groff that permits to view UTF-8 encoded man pages. 
> It installs a new command "groff-utf8", which has the same command line 
> options as groff. The supported output devices are "utf8" (denoting a tty 
> device in UTF-8 encoding, such as xterm, rxvt, or gnome-terminal) and "html".

Allows one to view UTF-8 man pages on a UTF-8 machine, without hacks like getting groff to pass through UTF-8 byte sequences by telling it it's latin1.

In /etc/man.conf:
NROFF           /usr/bin/groff-utf8 -c -mandoc -Tutf8
Comment 1 Ed Catmur 2006-06-23 18:30:02 UTC
Created attachment 89967 [details]
groff-utf8-0.ebuild

Unversioned tarball, but it doesn't appear likely to be changed without warning.

Perhaps app-text?
Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-06-24 00:33:12 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 126361 ***