From 7bf56ac7340344f3c5ed9d498509aaf46977478a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ralph Corderoy Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2017 13:29:38 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] README.manpages: Clarify that man-page source is ASCII. --- docs/README.manpages | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/README.manpages b/docs/README.manpages index e266953c..412ba9c4 100644 --- a/docs/README.manpages +++ b/docs/README.manpages @@ -27,10 +27,10 @@ Troff Considerations When quoting, use \*(lq and \*(rq. This ensures correct formatting on typesetter-like devices. - Don't use UTF-8 characters in the manpage source. We still - build and run on systems that can't handle this. And most - anything you would want to use has an internal troff character - escape sequence, anyway. + A man page's source is ASCII, not UTF-8. troff has escapes for + non-ASCII characters, e.g. \(em for an em-dash, U+2014, that are + mapped onto whatever the output device supports, e.g. UTF-8 or + PDF. Section Ordering -- 2.56.0