man and UTF-8 locales

Rick C. Petty rick-freebsd2008 at kiwi-computer.com
Tue Aug 25 21:07:20 UTC 2009


On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 03:03:41PM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote:
> 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.

It was already fixed on 2009-05-21 and MFC'd to 7-stable.

-- Rick C. Petty


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