Bad unicode `-' in manpages

Anonymous swell.k at gmail.com
Mon Feb 9 12:25:41 PST 2009


Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3 at amdmi3.ru> writes:

>> 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.

Go ahead and file a PR.
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Index: contrib/groff/font/devutf8/R.proto
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--- contrib/groff/font/devutf8/R.proto	(revision 188399)
+++ contrib/groff/font/devutf8/R.proto	(working copy)
@@ -726,7 +726,7 @@
 product	24	0	0x220F
 coproduct	24	0	0x2210
 sum	24	0	0x2211
-\-	24	0	0x2212
+\-	24	0	0x002d
 mi	"
 -+	24	0	0x2213
 **	24	0	0x2217


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