[Groff] Re: viewing UTF-8 encoded man pages

[Bruno Haible]

srintuar wrote:
> Just fyi, under fedora core 3 with a nearly stock install,
> both of those files show up just fine in gnome terminal with
> the system "man".

Thanks for this info. Indeed, in Fedora core 3/4, they
  - replaced the "nroff" command with one that understands a
      --legacy CHARSET
    option, and iconv's the man page and groff's output,
  - hacked "man" to provide this --legacy option, based on the language,
    for example "EUC-JP" for Japanese. (Which makes it impossible to
    install an UTF-8 encoded Japanese man page.)

Bruno