Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:02:39 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> To: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nroff -man, .An Aq formatting Message-ID: <4BA5EEBF.2070603@icyb.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <4BA5D7B0.8000507@bsdforen.de> References: <4BA5D7B0.8000507@bsdforen.de>
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on 21/03/2010 10:24 Dominic Fandrey said the following: > 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. Are you sure that they are even appropriate? E.g. I think you won't be able to copy+paste such an address to any mail client. My opinion is that ASCII angle brackets are the most appropriate here. > Or else my terminal (rxvt-unicode) has trouble displaying them. > > Does anybody know a workaround for this? > -- Andriy Gapon
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