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utf-8.7: Drop an old comment about UTF-8 replacing ISO 8859

PATCH Applied Marko Myllynen 3 participants 3 messages Jun 10, 2014 1 message not in the archive Man-pages: manual pages for Linux -- Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7

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PATCH 1/1 utf-8.7: Drop an old comment about UTF-8 replacing ISO 8859

Hi,

I think it's safe to drop this forward-looking statement from the utf-8(7) page now.

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From 1d43dd645ac03eeb7815d641ca041e966d7bd333 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Marko Myllynen <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 16:35:09 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] utf-8.7: Drop an old comment about UTF-8 replacing ISO 8859

---
 man7/utf-8.7 |   10 +---------
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
man7/utf-8.7 +1 -9
index bdf5468..65cabba 100644
@@ -258,15 +258,6 @@ The corresponding return sequence from
 to ISO 2022 is ESC % @ ("\\x1b%@").
 Other ISO 2022 sequences (such as
 for switching the G0 and G1 sets) are not applicable in UTF-8 mode.
-.PP
-It can be hoped that in the foreseeable future,
-.B UTF-8
-will replace
-.B ASCII
-and
-.B ISO 8859
-at all levels as the common character encoding on POSIX systems,
-leading to a significantly richer environment for handling plain text.
 .SS Security
 The
 .BR Unicode " and " UCS

@@ -291,6 +282,7 @@ ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000, Unicode 3.1, RFC\ 3629, Plan 9.
 .\" .SH AUTHOR
 .\" Markus Kuhn <[email protected]>
 .SH SEE ALSO
+.BR locale (1),
 .BR nl_langinfo (3),
 .BR setlocale (3),
 .BR charsets (7),
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1.7.1

Thanks,

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Quoted 3 lines · Marko Myllynen

Hi,

I think it's safe to drop this forward-looking statement from the utf-8(7) page now.

Indeed. Thanks,

Markus

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http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ || CB3 0FD, Great Britain
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Hi Marko,

Thanks! Applied. But see one comment below.

Quoted 34 lines · Marko Myllynen

Hi,

I think it's safe to drop this forward-looking statement from the utf-8(7) page now.

Quoted 1 line

From 1d43dd645ac03eeb7815d641ca041e966d7bd333 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Marko Myllynen <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 16:35:09 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] utf-8.7: Drop an old comment about UTF-8 replacing ISO 8859

---
 man7/utf-8.7 |   10 +---------
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
man7/utf-8.7 +0 -9
index bdf5468..65cabba 100644
@@ -258,15 +258,6 @@ The corresponding return sequence from
 to ISO 2022 is ESC % @ ("\\x1b%@").
 Other ISO 2022 sequences (such as
 for switching the G0 and G1 sets) are not applicable in UTF-8 mode.
-.PP
-It can be hoped that in the foreseeable future,
-.B UTF-8
-will replace
-.B ASCII
-and
-.B ISO 8859
-at all levels as the common character encoding on POSIX systems,
-leading to a significantly richer environment for handling plain text.
 .SS Security
 The
 .BR Unicode " and " UCS

man7/utf-8.7 ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000, Unicode 3.1, RFC\ 3629, Plan 9. · line 285

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man7/utf-8.7 +1 -0
@@ -291,6 +282,7 @@ ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000, Unicode 3.1, RFC\ 3629, Plan 9.
 .\" .SH AUTHOR
 .\" Markus Kuhn <[email protected]>
 .SH SEE ALSO
+.BR locale (1),

I prefer to have pieces like this noted in the change log (or even better, since it's unrelated--send as a separate patch).

Cheers,

Michael

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man7/utf-8.7 +0 -0
 .BR nl_langinfo (3),
 .BR setlocale (3),
 .BR charsets (7),
Signature · 7 lines
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
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