Subject: UTF8 and nroff manpages
To: None <tech-misc@netbsd.org>
From: David Brownlee <abs@absd.org>
List: tech-misc
Date: 09/22/2005 15:55:26
If locale is en_US.UTF-8 then manpages do not display '-' as
'-', but instad as the hex sequence e2 88 92. You can easily
see this by comparing the output of
nroff -mandoc /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1
with LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 and undefined.
I can understand for text formatting that e2 88 92 may be a
'better' unicode entity for a hyphen, but for a manpage its
very much not.
Does anyone have any ideas?
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David Brownlee -- abs@absd.org