nroff -man, .An Aq formatting

[Doug Barton]

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?

You might also want to take this up on freebsd-doc.


hth,

Doug

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