1 <refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
2 xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
3 xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
4 xmlns:src="http://nwalsh.com/xmlns/litprog/fragment"
5 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
6 version="5.0" xml:id="man.charmap.enabled">
8 <refentrytitle>man.charmap.enabled</refentrytitle>
9 <refmiscinfo class="other" otherclass="datatype">boolean</refmiscinfo>
12 <refname>man.charmap.enabled</refname>
13 <refpurpose>Apply character map before final output?</refpurpose>
17 <src:fragment xml:id="man.charmap.enabled.frag">
18 <xsl:param name="man.charmap.enabled" select="1"/>
22 <refsection><info><title>Description</title></info>
24 <para>If the value of the <parameter>man.charmap.enabled</parameter>
25 parameter is non-zero, a "character map" is used to substitute certain
26 Unicode symbols and special characters with appropriate roff/groff
27 equivalents, just before writing each man-page file to the
28 filesystem. If instead the value of
29 <parameter>man.charmap.enabled</parameter> is zero, Unicode characters
30 are passed through "as is".</para>
32 <refsection><info><title>Details</title></info>
34 <para>For converting certain Unicode symbols and special characters in
35 UTF-8 or UTF-16 encoded XML source to appropriate groff/roff
36 equivalents in man-page output, the DocBook XSL Stylesheets
37 distribution includes a <link xlink:href="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/snapshot/xsl/manpages/charmap.groff.xsl">roff character map</link> that is compliant with the <link xlink:href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#character-maps">XSLT character
38 map</link> format as detailed in the XSLT 2.0 specification. The map
39 contains more than 800 character mappings and can be considered the
40 standard roff character map for the distribution.</para>
42 <para>You can use the <parameter>man.charmap.uri</parameter>
43 parameter to specify a URI for the location for an alternate roff
44 character map to use in place of the standard roff character map
45 provided in the distribution.</para>
47 <para>You can also use a subset of a character map. For details,
48 see the <parameter>man.charmap.use.subset</parameter>,
49 <parameter>man.charmap.subset.profile</parameter>, and
50 <parameter>man.charmap.subset.profile.english</parameter>