[Mplayer-cvslog] CVS: main/DOCS/tech manpage.txt,1.22,1.23

[Diego Biurrun]

Attila Kinali writes:
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 06:47:34PM +0200, Diego Biurrun CVS wrote:
> > 
> > Modified Files:
> > 	manpage.txt 
> > Log Message:
> > Apparently the latin1 groff device gives better results than ascii.
> > 
> > -                 groff -m man -T ascii -rLL=78n mplayer.1 | col -bx > man_page.txt
> > +                 groff -m man -T latin1 -rLL=78n mplayer.1 | col -bx > man_page.txt
> 
> Hmm.. how about a note to change latin1 apropriately for other languages
> that are not in the latin1 range ?

Actually, this change was made to fix Polish, which is latin2..  It's
not that easy, groff does not support many devices.  It comes down to
a choice of ascii, cp1047, latin1, utf8, and ascii8.  ascii is 7 bit
and thus mostly useless, ascii8 is only available in newer groff
versions, utf8 does not give satisfactory results.  latin1 appears to
work fine, though.

Diego