From 4d463c82c8b82e4b4f4e5650b6d3f4efe0cef908 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Davin McCall Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2018 15:53:06 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] man page: add notes on character set. --- doc/manpages/dinit.8 | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/manpages/dinit.8 b/doc/manpages/dinit.8 index 5a57de6..ee3c932 100644 --- a/doc/manpages/dinit.8 +++ b/doc/manpages/dinit.8 @@ -72,6 +72,17 @@ service description has been read there is no way (yet) to alter it. See \fBdinit-service\fR(5) for details of the format and available parameters. .\" +.SH GENERAL NOTES +.\" +Dinit does no character set translation. Dinit's own output is in the execution +character set as determined at compilation, as is the interpretation of input. +Service names (and other user-defined inputs) are interpreted as byte sequences +and are output as they were read. In general, modern systems use the UTF-8 +character set universally and no problems will arise; however, systems configured +to use other character sets may see odd behaviour if the input character set does +not match the output character set, or if either input or output character sets +are not a superset of the execution character set. +.\" .SH FILES .\" .TP -- 2.25.1