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Date:      Fri, 22 May 2009 18:53:05 +0400
From:      Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r192561 - head/contrib/groff/font/devutf8
Message-ID:  <20090522145305.GC81998@hades.panopticon>
In-Reply-To: <200905211756.n4LHu0Gf074528@svn.freebsd.org>
References:  <200905211756.n4LHu0Gf074528@svn.freebsd.org>

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* Dag-Erling Smorgrav (des@FreeBSD.org) wrote:

> - negation and subtraction: U+2212

I'd warn against using unicode symbols where they're not absolutely
needed. If there's possibility for a piece of man for being copypasted
into e.g. code or command line, there should be plain ASCII. Especially
that goes to minus/negation/hyphen/dash:

Standard C Library (libc, -lc) (many)
or -1 if an error occurred. (poll)
-C NUM, --context=NUM (grep)
A `-' overrides a `0' (printf)

etc. - in all cases U+002D is preferred.

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