GCC-4.3.1, Linux-2.6.26.2

[DJ Lucas]

Ken Moffat wrote:
>  Of the 'not so liked', I'd be happy to see the back of Man-DB (and
> therefore move Berkeley DB back to BLFS - if my memory is correct, it
> was a dependency of Man-DB).  In my own builds, I still use groff-utf8
> to render UTF-8 man-pages.  [ nostalgic memory: before shadow was
> orphaned and then taken over by debian, it used to have a nice
> selection of UTF-8 pages. ]
>   
I really do not have a good understanding of that particular issue.  
 From what I did catch, and taking only info from the Debian bug, is 
that we gain proper support for Japanese, and some broken support for 
Chinese and Korean with ManDB.   I really wish Alexander could chime in 
here since he is the most knowledgeable WRT to this issue.  For 
reference: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=196762 . 

In skimming through the groff archives 200801-current, 
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/ , it doesn't look like anything 
has happened  in CVS for CJK support.  ManDB with the debian groff patch 
is the only solution for Japanese.  Chinese and Korean are still in the 
dark even with that.  I guess my real question is what exactly do we 
loose by dropping back to Man with current groff-1.19.2.  I do realize 
that what we have now works well in most cases.

-- DJ Lucas

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