sfeed

commit 68b559b084d7c765209c56b68a074f84aee39506
parent a31bc6d34c3fcb661470434c1b0324b826c3302f
Author: Hiltjo Posthuma <hiltjo@codemadness.org>
Date:   Thu, 29 Jun 2017 21:00:54 +0200

sfeed_plain.1: document a proper LC_CTYPE UTF-8 is required

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1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/sfeed_plain.1 b/sfeed_plain.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.Dd August 5, 2015
+.Dd June 29, 2017
 .Dt SFEED_PLAIN 1
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -23,7 +23,18 @@ If no
 .Ar file
 parameters are specified and so the data is read from stdin the feed name
 is empty.
-.Xr sfeed 1
+.Pp
+.Nm
+aligns the output.
+It shows a maximum of 70 column-wide characters for the title and outputs
+an ellipsis symbol if the title is longer and truncated.
+Make sure the environment variable
+.Ev LC_CTYPE
+is set to a UTF-8 locale, so it can determine the proper column-width
+per rune, using
+.Xr mbtowc 3
+and
+.Xr wcwidth 3 .
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr sfeed 1 ,
 .Xr sfeed_html 1