Re: Full mandoc locale support committed.

["Ulrich Spörlein" <uqs@spoerlein.net>]

On Wed, 18.05.2011 at 01:07:28 +0200, Kristaps Dzonsons wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> With this last commit, initial [full] locale support has been fitted 
> into mandoc!  Attached is eye-candy: a manual full of random Unicode 
> input (\[uNNNN]) first with -Tascii, then with -Tlocale.
> 
>  From the manual:
> 
>     Locale Output
>       Locale-depending output encoding is triggered with -Tlocale.
>       This option is not available on all systems: systems without
>       locale support, or those whose internal representation is not
>       natively UCS-4, will fall back to -Tascii.  See ASCII Output
>       for font style specification and available command-line
>       arguments.

Cool stuff! However, and this might be due to a case of "we've always
been doing it that way"-thinking: I think this automagic is in the wrong
place.

There might be cases, where I really want ASCII output no matter what my
locale is (this is covered by -Tascii right now), and there might be
cases where I want UTF-8 output, no matter what the current locale is.
Perhaps because I write the output to disk or to some other
postprocessor.

What I'm arguing is that we need to have a -Tutf8 mode and that perhaps
*not* specifying *any* -T value turns on the automagic? This would make
more sense from a users standpoint, IMHO.

Uli
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