Friday, April 13, 2018

Re: japanese/Wnn: remove jgroff dependency

On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 10:55:05PM +0900, YASUOKA Masahiko wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > - Somebody please check whether installing EUC is *really* still
> > important. As soon as it is confirmed that it is not, stop
> > doing so. But don't let that delay this cleanup.
>
> I don't think installing EUC is needed. Even if people is still using
> EUC terminal, they can use MANPAGER=jless to see the UTF-8 manuals.
> Since our jless started support both EUC and UTF-8, so both
>
> env MANPATH=/usr/local/man/ja MANPAGER=jless
> env MANPATH=/usr/local/man/ja_JP.EUC MANPAGER=jless
>
> will show the same result. Also theoretically there may be conversion
> problems between EUC and UTF-8, but I think it's no problem if we fix
> them when we hit such problems.

Ah, cool, I wasn't aware of the jless update. I have no objection left, then.

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