thai tis-620.7 man page

Here is the tis-620.7 man page along with screenshots from konqueror and xterm. xterm was used here because the zero width characters included in the man page was impossible to be displayed in the konsole.

Στις Sunday 01 February 2009 12:13:42 ο/η Michael Kerrisk έγραψε:

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So, given that tis-620 and iso 8859-11 are nearly identical (as you note in the iso_8859-11.7 NOTES), I ask myself: do we really need both pages? Maybe there is a good reason, of which I am ignorant. Can you say something on this?

I' embedding here the answer I got from
Thanomsub Noppaburana <[email protected]>
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2009/1/28 Lefteris Dimitroulakis <[email protected]>:

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ISO-8859-11 is it used also with your language or
actually nobody is intrested since the difference
with TIS-620 is only the "NO-BREAK SPACE" ?.

In fact, we are still trying to replace the reference of TIS-620 to ISO8859-11 especially in many parts of Linux, GNU programs and X.org because we think that TIS-620-0 and ISO8859-11 are the same.

E.g.: Lets look at the header of /usr/share/fonts/encodings/iso8859-11.enc (may be in the other place):

STARTENCODING iso8859-11
ALIAS tis620-0
ALIAS tis620.2529-1
ALIAS tis620.2533-1
ALIAS tis620.2533-0

The ugly thing: MS WIndows is always use it's Non-Standard encoding - "Windows-874" for Thai.

Cheers,
Donga.
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So even thought the difference is minimal I think that some how it should be a man page with the name tis-620.7 .
Maybe It could be an empty page pointing to iso_8859-11 as the latin.?.7 ?

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That would seem more reasonable. So, I'll create a tis-620.7 link page (like latin?.7) that points to iso_8859-11.7, with the latter having a note on the one character difference between the two. Okay?

Στις Sunday 01 February 2009 13:14:07 ο/η Michael Kerrisk έγραψε:

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[restored linux-man to CC]

That would seem more reasonable. So, I'll create a tis-620.7 link page (like latin?.7) that points to iso_8859-11.7, with the latter having a note on the one character difference between the two. Okay?

That should be perfect Michael. Please proceed.