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+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# print_encoding.sh
+#
+# Print man pages with encoding other than us-ascii, together with
+# their encoding by file utility and by the first line in the man page.
+#
+# Example usage:
+#
+# cd man-pages-x.yy
+# sh print_encoding.sh man?/*
+#
+######################################################################
+#
+# (C) Copyright 2013, Peter Schiffer <pschiffe@redhat.com>
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+# as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
+# of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details
+# (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html).
+#
+
+if [[ $# -lt 1 ]]; then
+ echo "Usage: ${0} man?/*" 1>&2
+ exit 1
+fi
+
+printf "\n %-23s%-19s%s\n\n" "Man Page" "Encoding by file" "Encoding by first line"
+
+for f in "$@"; do
+ if [[ ! -f "$f" ]]; then
+ continue
+ fi
+
+ enc=$(file -bi "$f" | cut -d = -f 2)
+ if [[ $enc != "us-ascii" ]]; then
+ lenc=$(head -n 1 "$f" | sed -n "s/.*coding: \([^ ]*\).*/\1/p")
+ printf " * %-23s%-19s%s\n" "$f" "$enc" "$lenc"
+ fi
+done
+
+exit 0