<refentry xmlns:src="http://nwalsh.com/xmlns/litprog/fragment"
          xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
          id="man.charmap.enabled">
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>man.charmap.enabled</refentrytitle>
<refmiscinfo role="type">boolean</refmiscinfo>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>man.charmap.enabled</refname>
<refpurpose>Apply character map before final output?</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>

<refsynopsisdiv>
<src:fragment id='man.charmap.enabled.frag'>
<xsl:param name="man.charmap.enabled" select="1"/>
</src:fragment>
</refsynopsisdiv>

<refsect1><title>Description</title>

<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>

<refsect2>
<title>Details</title>
<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 <ulink
url="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/snapshot/xsl/manpages/charmap.groff.xsl"
>roff character map</ulink> that is compliant with the <ulink
url="http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#character-maps" >XSLT character
map</ulink> 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> and
<parameter>man.charmap.subset.profile</parameter> parameters.</para>

</refsect2>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
