Use correct encoding for man pages

We generate UTF-8 man pages and set ‘charset=UTF-8’ using the <meta> tag, but WebKit ignores this. I also tried to set the ‘com.apple.TextEncoding’ extended attribute (to UTF-8), but this is ignored as well. So the only fix was to include a “byte order mark” (BOM) in the file.
joachimm · Aug 17, 2012 · f06d365 · f06d365
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diff --git a/Support/shared/bin/man2html b/Support/shared/bin/man2html
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ else
   name = '(unknown)'
 end
 
+STDOUT << [0xFEFF].pack("U*") # Output UTF-8 ByteOrderMark since this is the only way I have been able to make WebKit show the file as UTF-8. It ignores the <meta> tag and it also ignores the com.apple.TextEncoding extended attribute.
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 STDOUT << <<-HTML
 <html>
 <head>