<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" xmlns:src="http://nwalsh.com/xmlns/litprog/fragment" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="5.0" xml:id="man.charmap.enabled"> <refmeta> <refentrytitle>man.charmap.enabled</refentrytitle> <refmiscinfo class="other" otherclass="datatype">boolean</refmiscinfo> </refmeta> <refnamediv> <refname>man.charmap.enabled</refname> <refpurpose>Apply character map before final output?</refpurpose> </refnamediv> <refsynopsisdiv> <src:fragment xml:id="man.charmap.enabled.frag"> <xsl:param name="man.charmap.enabled" select="1"/> </src:fragment> </refsynopsisdiv> <refsection><info><title>Description</title></info> <para>If the value of the <parameter>man.charmap.enabled</parameter> parameter is non-zero, a "character map" is used to substitute certain Unicode symbols and special characters with appropriate roff/groff equivalents, just before writing each man-page file to the filesystem. If instead the value of <parameter>man.charmap.enabled</parameter> is zero, Unicode characters are passed through "as is".</para> <refsection><info><title>Details</title></info> <para>For converting certain Unicode symbols and special characters in UTF-8 or UTF-16 encoded XML source to appropriate groff/roff equivalents in man-page output, the DocBook XSL Stylesheets 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 map</link> format as detailed in the XSLT 2.0 specification. The map contains more than 800 character mappings and can be considered the standard roff character map for the distribution.</para> <para>You can use the <parameter>man.charmap.uri</parameter> parameter to specify a URI for the location for an alternate roff character map to use in place of the standard roff character map provided in the distribution.</para> <para>You can also use a subset of a character map. For details, see the <parameter>man.charmap.use.subset</parameter>, <parameter>man.charmap.subset.profile</parameter>, and <parameter>man.charmap.subset.profile.english</parameter> parameters.</para> </refsection> </refsection> </refentry>