Setting locale environment variables (LC_* and LANG) to e.g.
en_US.utf8 works fine on Linux, and that is what locale -a
returns (in Linux). However this does not work e.g. in some *BSD
systems.
In these systems, en_US.UTF-8 works. This also works in Linux
systems (which may look like a surprising thing on the first sight(*)).
But that *UTF-8 format seems to be widely used in the Linux system:
Grep it through the files in /etc/, for example.
Easy way to test: Run the following command lines. First should
complain about setting locale failed, and second should not.
$ LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-1 perl -e ''
$ LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 perl -e ''
(*) and who knows what the "standard" is...
Many of the external links found in the notmuch source can be resolved
using https instead of http. This changeset addresses as many as i
could find, without touching the e-mail corpus or expected outputs
found in tests.
The new manual pages converted from rst using sphinx or rst2man
has somewhat different syntax. man-to-mdwn.pl is now adjusted
to produce even better output from this syntax. The changes also
include using utf-8 locale (e.g. for tables and generated hypens)
and and quite a few bugs fixes.
This tool still produces better results than just using the
html pages generated using sphinx / rst2html. For example those
tools don't create inter-page hyperlinks -- and the preformatted
pages written by man-to-mdwn.pl just works well with manual page
content.
After new notmuch release has been published the NEWS and manual
pages have been updated using these 2 programs.
Adding the tools to notmuch repository eases their use, adds more
transparency to the "process" and gives more people chance to
do the updates is one is unavailable to do it at the time being.
