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Date:      Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:35:12 -0700
From:      Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org>
To:        Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: man and UTF-8 locales
Message-ID:  <4A9DF600.5090008@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090901210803.GF2829@hoeg.nl>
References:  <01895862@bb.ipt.ru> <20090901210803.GF2829@hoeg.nl>
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Ed Schouten wrote:
> 
> I'm also a bit puzzled by the nm(1) manpage. It uses U+23AA (CURLY
> BRACKET EXTENSION) for the |-characters in the SYNOPSIS section. Is this
> character really meant to be used this way?

That's just wrong.  The bracket extension characters are
meant to be used in building large-sized brackets and should
never be used by themselves.

Personally, I would stick with U+007C here.

Tim
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