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--- Comment #6 from Michal Vyskocil <mvyskocil@xxxxxxxxxx> 2010-10-01 12:25:36 
UTC ---
Well, it is harder to read the UTF-8 man pages. As you can see from the output
of following command

LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8 man -d man

man runs the following sequence

zcat < /usr/share/man/de/man1/man.1.gz  | /usr/bin/zsoelim |
/usr/lib/man-db/manconv -f UTF-8:ISO-8859-1 -t ISO-8859-1//IGNORE | preconv -e
ISO-8859-1 | tbl | nroff -mandoc -rLL=175n -rLT=175n -Tutf8 

The manconv converts the utf-8 (or latin1) manpage to iso-8859-1, preconv
replace the non-ascii characters by utf sequences \[uXXXX] which are those
nroff can handle. On the end it will convert the text back to utf8 for
terminal.

For example this is for Japanese

LC_MESSAGES=ja_JP.EUC-JP man -d man

zcat < /usr/share/man/ja/man1/man.1.gz | /usr/bin/zsoelim |
/usr/lib/man-db/manconv -f UTF-8:EUC-JP -t EUC-JP//IGNORE | preconv -e EUC-JP |
tbl | nroff -mandoc -rLL=175n -rLT=175n -Tutf8

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