Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:38:22 +0100 From: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nroff -man, .An Aq formatting Message-ID: <4BA86FEE.5020703@bsdforen.de> In-Reply-To: <4BA6C5DA.6040100@FreeBSD.org> References: <4BA5D7B0.8000507@bsdforen.de> <4BA6C5DA.6040100@FreeBSD.org>
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On 22/03/2010 02:20, Doug Barton wrote: > On 03/21/10 01:24, Dominic Fandrey 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. >> >> Or else my terminal (rxvt-unicode) has trouble displaying them. >> >> Does anybody know a workaround for this? > > AFAIK our standard is -mdoc, not -man. Is there a specific purpose for > which you need -man? And if not does the problem exist with -mdoc? Ah, I didn't know that. Doesn't seem to make a difference, though. Still, I'll test my pages with -mdoc instead of -man in the future. Thanks a lot! -- 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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