[debian-devel:12513] Re: [fpolacco@debian.org: Installed groff 1.16-0 (source i386)]

[Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@debian.or.jp>]

At Wed, 21 Jun 2000 19:49:34 +0900,
Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> wrote:

> > Of course 'man foo' works well with english manual pages
> > but it does not display Japanese characters at all with
> > Japanese manual pages.  Perhaps this is a problem of man-db
> > or something else and not of groff itself.
> 
> I'm surprized.
> I was expecting other reactions, but I got no more messages after this
> on this thread.
> >From the tone of your message, I imagine that you were "expecting" man not to display japanese characters.

> I think it was quite the contrary, at least with mna and groff in
> unstable. I had report that both worked for japanese and other asian
> languages.
> 
> Can somebody confirm this?
> Is there a problem with japanization of groff-1.16 ?

His problem existed in groff_1.16-0, but it already fixed in 1.16-1
by Sano's patch.

Regards,
Fumitoshi UKAI