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authordiego <diego@b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2>2006-11-01 17:31:11 +0000
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paragraph about groff and UTF-8
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@@ -59,6 +59,11 @@ A setting of 4 should look readable. Here's an overview again:
groff -mman -Tlatin1 -rLL=78n mplayer.1 | col -bx > mplayer.1.txt
The groff man page lists other output formats to use with -T.
+ Unfortunately groff is not able to handle UTF-8 input as of
+ version 1.19.2. groff-utf8 is a wrapper that works around these
+ deficiencies:
+ http://www.haible.de/bruno/packages-groff-utf8.html
+
- man2html: You can view it through a CGI script:
http://localhost/cgi-bin/man2html?mplayer
The output is unusable as the script doesn't seem to support