Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:33:46 +0300 From: Anonymous <swell.k@gmail.com> To: Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bad unicode `-' in manpages Message-ID: <867i43742t.fsf@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090206183344.GE17600@hades.panopticon> (Dmitry Marakasov's message of "Fri, 6 Feb 2009 21:33:44 %2B0300") References: <20090206183344.GE17600@hades.panopticon>
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Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru> writes:
> Hi!
>
> It seems like unicode was introduced into man pages on current.
>
> While
>
> "Include directory entries whose names begin with a dot (‘.’)"
>
> indeed looks better than
>
> "Include directory entries whose names begin with a dot (`.')"
>
> , I'm concerned about (at least) minus sign, which was changed from
> `-' (U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS) symbol to `−' (U+2212 MINUS SIGN) everywhere.
> Now most of man pages basically provide false info, and copypasting
> or search are now impossible.
Have you tried to change locale to `C' or invoke man(1) with `-o'?
locale `C' and `-o' option produce `groff -S -Wall -mtty-char -man -Tascii'
locale `en_US.UTF-8' produces
`groff -S -Wall -mtty-char -man -Tutf8 -dlocale=en.UTF-8'
Anyway, same here, but I vaguely remember it first appeared about half a
year ago. And I think it can cause trouble when trying to view localized
man page written in unicode when you can't escape to either `C' locale
or `-o' option.
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