137787 – groff-utf8: a UTF-8 capable wrapper for GNU groff

Bug 137787 - groff-utf8: a UTF-8 capable wrapper for GNU groff

Summary: groff-utf8: a UTF-8 capable wrapper for GNU groff

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 126361

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

URL:	http://www.haible.de/bruno/packages-g...
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Reported:	2006-06-23 18:27 UTC by Ed Catmur
Modified:	2006-06-24 00:33 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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groff-utf8-0.ebuild (groff-utf8-0.ebuild,484 bytes, text/plain) 2006-06-23 18:30 UTC, Ed Catmur	Details
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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 ***