I recently implemented man -K (full-text search over all manual pages) in
man-db. This was inspired by a similar feature
in Federico Lucifredi’s man
package (formerly maintained by Andries Brouwer). I think I did a much
better job of it, though. The man package just forks grep for every …
See Encodings in man-db for context.
Yesterday, I uploaded man-db 2.5.1-1 to unstable. With this version, not only is it possible to install manual pages in UTF-8 (as with 2.5.0, although with fewer bugs), but it’s also possible to ask man to produce a …
I’ve spent some quality upstream time lately with man-db. Specifically, I’ve been upgrading its locale support. I recently published a pre-release, man-db 2.5.0-pre2 mainly for translators, but other people may be interested in having a look at it as well. I hope to release 2.5 …