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authorjan.nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sourceforge.net>2016-02-08 16:39:34 (GMT)
committerjan.nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sourceforge.net>2016-02-08 16:39:34 (GMT)
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Fix [0a3d799a6d]: option db rc files in non utf-8 encoding are not portable.
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@@ -59,6 +59,12 @@ options specified in that file to the option database. If \fIpriority\fR
is specified, it indicates the priority level at which to enter the
options; \fIpriority\fR defaults to \fBinteractive\fR.
.PP
+The file is read through a channel which is in "utf-8" encoding,
+invalid byte sequences are automatically converted to valid ones.
+This means that encodings like ISO 8859-1 or cp1252 with high
+probability will work as well, but this cannot be guaranteed.
+This cannot be changed, setting the [encoding system] has no effect.
+.PP
The \fIpriority\fR arguments to the \fBoption\fR command are
normally specified symbolically using one of the following values:
.TP