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From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
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Cc: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: nroff -man, .An Aq formatting
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Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> Dominic Fandrey <des@des.no> writes:
> > It has come to my attention that whereas with LANG=3DC "nroff -man"
> > formats ".An name Aq email" as "name <email>", it uses different
> > characters with LANG=3Den_GB.UTF-8 "name =E2=9F=A8email=E2=9F=A9". Thes=
e characters
> > are appropriate, but a lot of unicode fonts don't seem to have them.
> 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?

Yes to the latter.

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.

I've attached a patch.

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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no


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Index: contrib/groff/font/devutf8/R.proto
===================================================================
--- contrib/groff/font/devutf8/R.proto	(revision 204870)
+++ contrib/groff/font/devutf8/R.proto	(working copy)
@@ -68,9 +68,11 @@
 :	24	0	0x003A
 ;	24	0	0x003B
 <	24	0	0x003C
+la	"
 =	24	0	0x003D
 eq	"
 >	24	0	0x003E
+ra	"
 ?	24	0	0x003F
 @	24	0	0x0040
 at	"
@@ -810,8 +812,6 @@
 HE	24	0	0x2665
 DI	24	0	0x2666
 OK	24	0	0x2713
-la	24	0	0x27E8
-ra	24	0	0x27E9
 ff	24	0	0xFB00
 fi	24	0	0xFB01
 fl	24	0	0xFB02

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