nroff -man, .An Aq formatting

[Dominic Fandrey]

On 22/03/2010 16:05, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> wrote:
> 
>>>> 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.
>>
>> This is definitely a bug, since (as avg@ points out) you can no longer
>> copy-paste the name & address into an email client.
>>
>> AFAIK (judging from the Unicode group they're in) these characters are
>> intended mainly for writing things like <ENTER> and <CTRL>+<F1> in
>> technical documentation.
> 
> And we probably have that usage in other man pages.  It is not clear
> to me if the problem is the use of these characters for angle quotes
> or the use of .Aq for email addresses.

I got it out of the wpi(4) manual first. It probably appears in other
places, too.

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