From 2c0bf0e806e848b229d3ff7f8b5e04c030db4993 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: diego Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 17:31:11 +0000 Subject: paragraph about groff and UTF-8 git-svn-id: svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk@20583 b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2 --- DOCS/tech/manpage.txt | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/DOCS/tech/manpage.txt b/DOCS/tech/manpage.txt index c51da822d3..eb231ede46 100644 --- a/DOCS/tech/manpage.txt +++ b/DOCS/tech/manpage.txt @@ -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 -- cgit v1.2.3