svn commit: r192561 - head/contrib/groff/font/devutf8

Ivan Voras ivoras at freebsd.org
Thu May 21 19:09:03 UTC 2009


2009/5/21 Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no>:
> Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des at FreeBSD.org> writes:
>> Log:
>>   When man pages are formatted in UTF-8, .Fl is encoded as U+2212 "MINUS
>>   SIGN" instead of U+002D "HYPHEN-MINUS".  This is unfortunate for two
>>   reasons: 1) this is not the character which is actually used on the
>>   command line, and 2) it makes it impossible to search a man page for a
>>   specific command-line option.
>>   [...]
>
> This should have been committed (and MFCed) along with r183696-r183698.

And here I was thinking it was done to hurry up UTF-8 support on the console :)


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