man and UTF-8 locales

Boris Samorodov bsam at ipt.ru
Tue Aug 25 11:03:44 UTC 2009


On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:59:12 +0400 Anonymous wrote:
> Boris Samorodov <bsam at ipt.ru> writes:

> > Manual pages are still broken for UTF-8 locale. Here is a part
> > of bzip2(1):
> > ftp://ftp.ipt.ru/pub/images/man_bzip2.gif

>  `-' (0x2D, HYPHEN-MINUS) renders as `‐' (U+2010, HYPHEN).

> See r192561 and this *workaround*

Yep, there are some workarounds here. I use "LANG=C" to
overcome the case. The main question is if this bug will
be fixed before release or not.

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