nroff -man, .An Aq formatting

[Dominic Fandrey]

On 21/03/2010 11:02, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> 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.

Well, that's just how I got them into the mail. I copied them out
of the terminal, that displays a square instead of the characters,
into my mail client, which displays them just fine.

> My opinion is that ASCII angle brackets are the most appropriate here.

I don't know about that, but they sure would be most convenient.

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