Bad unicode `-' in manpages

Dmitry Marakasov amdmi3 at amdmi3.ru
Mon Feb 9 05:48:20 PST 2009


* Anonymous (swell.k at gmail.com) wrote:

> Have you tried to change locale to `C' or invoke man(1) with `-o'?

Yes, they both result in the old behaviour with correct `-'.

> Anyway, same here, but I vaguely remember it first appeared about half a

I'm only using current for couple of weeks, so it's new to me.

> year ago. And I think it can cause trouble when trying to view localized
> man page written in unicode when you can't escape to either `C' locale
> or `-o' option.

Agreed. But actually you shouldn't need to specify extra arguments to
man or change locale to view /correct/ man page, so I think it should be
fixed.

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