Re: [edit-utils] Handling Japanese man page

"No harm" is assuming that the nroff convention is always one ^H per hankaku character. You're probably right, but are you _sure_?

Hrvoje> Ideally, XEmacs should just do the right thing, either by Hrvoje> hardcoding the stuff or by guessing it. We should Hrvoje> generally be careful about introducing new user-options. We don't have the choice of "just working" here. We don't have Chinese or Koreans to ask at the moment, and we don't know whether there might be other languages that make the bogus width distinction that Japanese does. The defcustom (1) gives Japanese users who know that they'll be looking mostly at non-Japanese pages the chance to defeat what you say is an expensive operation, (2) allows non-Japanese whose situations we don't know yet to make the appropriate choice for themselves (including the fact that custom is self-documenting, and so they might actually find it while looking in custom for some option to fix bad behavior), and (3) documents what we did for the future day when the *roff folks remove the bogus width distinction.