[MPlayer-cvslog] r20583 - trunk/DOCS/tech/manpage.txt

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 06:31:11PM +0100, diego wrote:
> Author: diego
> Date: Wed Nov  1 18:31:11 2006
> New Revision: 20583
> 
> Modified:
>    trunk/DOCS/tech/manpage.txt
> 
> Log:
> paragraph about groff and UTF-8
> 
> 
> Modified: trunk/DOCS/tech/manpage.txt
> ==============================================================================
> --- trunk/DOCS/tech/manpage.txt	(original)
> +++ trunk/DOCS/tech/manpage.txt	Wed Nov  1 18:31:11 2006
> @@ -59,6 +59,11 @@
>                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

Using the free Plan9 troff instead of groff is also a solution, since
Plan9 has been UTF-8-only all along.

Rich