From 1dbe3d5b8752355d9dfcc41b54d92f7c94fd0586 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 11:49:09 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] * man: use UTF-8 instead of latin1 by default.  Fixes broken
 special   characters in man output.

svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=16244
---
 pkgs/tools/misc/man/default.nix | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/man/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/man/default.nix
index 490aa4606ab..b718e3c1289 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/misc/man/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/man/default.nix
@@ -19,6 +19,15 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     ./share.patch
   ];
 
+  postInstall =
+    ''
+      # Use UTF-8 by default.  Otherwise man won't know how to deal
+      # with certain characters.
+      substituteInPlace $out/lib/man.conf \
+        --replace "nroff -Tlatin1" "nroff" \
+        --replace "eqn -Tlatin1" "eqn -Tutf8"
+    '';
+
   meta = {
     homepage = http://primates.ximian.com/~flucifredi/man/;
     description = "Tool to read online Unix documentation";