Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 17:56:00 +0000 (UTC) From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@FreeBSD.org> To: cvs-src-old@freebsd.org Subject: cvs commit: src/contrib/groff/font/devutf8 R.proto Message-ID: <200905211756.n4LHuB4G041199@repoman.freebsd.org>
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des 2009-05-21 17:56:00 UTC
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Modified files:
contrib/groff/font/devutf8 R.proto
Log:
SVN rev 192561 on 2009-05-21 17:56:00Z by des
When man pages are formatted in UTF-8, .Fl is encoded as U+2212 "MINUS
SIGN" instead of U+002D "HYPHEN-MINUS". This is unfortunate for two
reasons: 1) this is not the character which is actually used on the
command line, and 2) it makes it impossible to search a man page for a
specific command-line option.
This patch fixes this, but there are other unresolved issues, such as
confusion between -, \- and hy: while the latter is always (and only)
used for hyphenation, both - and \- are used for negation and
subtraction, and \- is used for command-line options and sometimes
also for parenthesis. IMHO, the correct Unicode characters are:
- hyphenation: either U+2010 or U+00AD, most likely the former (the
latter is the so-called soft hyphen, used to indicate a point at
which a text processor is allowed to hyphenate a word)
- negation and subtraction: U+2212
- parenthesis: in English, U+2214, with spaces suppressed before and
after; in some others (such as Norwegian), U+2213 with spaces
retained.
- command-line options: U+002D, because that is what is actually used
on the command line.
However, fixing this would require extensive modifications to (at least)
the doc and man macro sets...
MFC after: 1 week
Revision Changes Path
1.2 +460 -114 src/contrib/groff/font/devutf8/R.proto
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