Re: [Docutils-develop] manpage-writer: Correct escape sequence for apostrophe character

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On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Ben Finney wrote:

> gr...@us... writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> can we anticipate terminal coding ?
>
> The man page document can't anticipate what terminal encoding the reader
> will use, no. Since a man page is read in many different contexts and
> terminals, I'm not sure what you're asking.

i am asking if the manpage writer should check the output-encoding 
specified by the user to rst2man and depending on this replace
some characters. therefore if someone wants to deliver utf manpages
he might do so, without getting all his apostrophes replaced by ``\(aq``s.

but i think i can wait for this one to come along.

p.s. i moved the manpage writer out of sandbox.
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