Re: reintroducing Japanese in manual pages

[Jens-Ulrik Petersen]

Great - this is very nice news!

Jens

----- "Jan Vcelak"  wrote:
> Hello,
>
> thanks to great work of Daiki Ueno and Colin Watson, we are
> reintroducing
> Japanese support in groff and therefore in manual pages!
>
> Japanese was never supported by upstream. In the times of groff 1.18
> (released
> in February 2002), there were very huge and unmaintainable patches
> adding
> Japanese. These were dropped with F13 and we switched to groff 1.20
> (released
> in January 2009).
>
> groff-1.20.1-3.fc15 brings new set of patches created by Colin Watson,
> who
> added character class support; and Daiki Ueno, who made groff to
> determine
> glyph width using wcwidth(). Upstream has some remarks to these
> patches, but
> we hope we manage to get them included.
>
> I'm not aware of any other distribution using groff 1.20 with working
> Japanese. Kudos to Fedora! ;-)
>
> --
> Jan Včelák
> Base Operating Systems Brno
> Red Hat Inc.