Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:36:47 +0100 From: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nroff -man, .An Aq formatting Message-ID: <4BA86F8F.1030807@bsdforen.de> In-Reply-To: <ho810g$19g0$1@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> References: <4BA5D7B0.8000507@bsdforen.de> <4BA6C5DA.6040100@FreeBSD.org> <86634ojxl7.fsf@ds4.des.no> <ho810g$19g0$1@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>
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On 22/03/2010 16:05, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no> wrote: > >>>> It has come to my attention that whereas with LANG=C "nroff -man" >>>> formats ".An name Aq email" as "name <email>", it uses different >>>> characters with LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 "name ⟨email⟩". These characters >>>> are appropriate, but a lot of unicode fonts don't seem to have them. >> >> This is definitely a bug, since (as avg@ points out) you can no longer >> copy-paste the name & address into an email client. >> >> AFAIK (judging from the Unicode group they're in) these characters are >> intended mainly for writing things like <ENTER> and <CTRL>+<F1> in >> technical documentation. > > And we probably have that usage in other man pages. It is not clear > to me if the problem is the use of these characters for angle quotes > or the use of .Aq for email addresses. I got it out of the wpi(4) manual first. It probably appears in other places, too. -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
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