From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 21 11:05:59 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0CAD106564A for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:05:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kamikaze@bsdforen.de) Received: from mail.bsdforen.de (bsdforen.de [212.204.60.79]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 810DC8FC17 for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:05:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mobileKamikaze.norad (unknown [92.117.205.237]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.bsdforen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 460598A18E8; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:05:54 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4BA5FD8C.5060709@bsdforen.de> Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:05:48 +0100 From: Dominic Fandrey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100302 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andriy Gapon References: <4BA5D7B0.8000507@bsdforen.de> <4BA5EEBF.2070603@icyb.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <4BA5EEBF.2070603@icyb.net.ua> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nroff -man, .An Aq formatting X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:05:59 -0000 On 21/03/2010 11:02, Andriy Gapon wrote: > 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 ", 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. Well, that's just how I got them into the mail. I copied them out of the terminal, that displays a square instead of the characters, into my mail client, which displays them just fine. > My opinion is that ASCII angle brackets are the most appropriate here. I don't know about that, but they sure would be most convenient. -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?