[MPlayer-DOCS] wrong encoding for text manual?

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Sun Jun 22 15:11:30 CEST 2008


On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 12:46:13AM +0200, Mizda Gábor wrote:
> 2008.06.20. 18:09 keltezéssel, compn írta:
> > http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1.txt
> > has a bunch of odd characters in it...
> >
> >       mencoder (MPlayer’s Movie Encoder)
> 
> It isn't the man page (or not only that). The default page encoding on
> MPlayerHQ is UTF-8 but the man pages are not written in nor converted
> to Unicode. This causes the strange chars.
> Switching the browsers encoding to Unicode solves the problem.
> 
> See: http://web.t-online.hu/gabrov/manpage/

The text version of the man pages is converted to UTF-8 by the
documentation generation script.  You guys need to fix your browser
settings.  If you force a wrong encoding all means of weird things will
happen.

And you should *really* set your defaults to UTF-8.  This is the 21st
century...

Diego



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