[xorg-bugzilla-noise] [Bug 669] "xman" can't view japanese manual pages

[bugzilla-daemon at pdx.freedesktop.org]

Please do not reply to this email: if you want to comment on the bug, go to     
the URL shown below and enter your comments there.  
  
http://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=669   
   

roland.mainz at nrubsig.org changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                 CC|                            |eich at pdx.freedesktop.org




------- Additional Comments From roland.mainz at nrubsig.org  2004-05-28 01:32 -------
Egbert Eich wrote:
> A decisison needs to be made if Xman should be tossed,

Please no... ;-(

> deprecated but provided
> 'as is', or fixed.

Well, a possible fix may be simply to switch the default font to a japanese
encoding "on demand". The problem is how "xman" should detect a japanese manual
page (there are some nice algorithms for charset autodetection) ... or whether
the user should do that manually.
For a Motif application this would be easy... but I have no clue how I can force
the Xaw text widget into doublebyte mode (e.g. 16bit font) - does anyone know
examples for that ?

[snip]
> Is xman still shipped with Solaris?

Yes, it's even in the default ${PATH} ...
% which xman
/usr/openwin/bin/xman
... and Alan did recently some bugfixing for Solaris and added support for
DocBook manual pages.   
   
--    
Configure bugmail: http://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email   
------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee.