nroff -man, .An Aq formatting

[Dominic Fandrey]

On 22/03/2010 02:20, Doug Barton wrote:
> On 03/21/10 01:24, Dominic Fandrey 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.
>>
>> Or else my terminal (rxvt-unicode) has trouble displaying them.
>>
>> Does anybody know a workaround for this?
> 
> AFAIK our standard is -mdoc, not -man. Is there a specific purpose for
> which you need -man? And if not does the problem exist with -mdoc?

Ah, I didn't know that. Doesn't seem to make a difference, though.

Still, I'll test my pages with -mdoc instead of -man in the future.

Thanks a lot!

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