nroff -man, .An Aq formatting

[Andriy Gapon]

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 <email>", 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.
My opinion is that ASCII angle brackets are the most appropriate here.

> Or else my terminal (rxvt-unicode) has trouble displaying them.
> 
> Does anybody know a workaround for this?
> 


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Andriy Gapon