Re: unicode

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 03:12:29PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 11:20, Colin Watson wrote:
> > In groff \- is a dash, - is a hyphen. People need to use the right one.
> > If you have other problems let me know, since I'm not aware of any in
> > unstable right now.
> 
> In unicode, there are at least these:
> 
> ASCII hyphen        - (0x2D)
> hyphen              ??? (0x2010)
> non-breaking hyphen   (0x2011)
> subtraction sign    ??? (0x2212)
> en dash             ??? (0x2013)
> em dash             ??? (0x2014)
> horizontal bar      ??? (0x2015)

A Debian-specific patch maps '\-' to 0x2D for the man and mdoc macro
sets. For the others, see groff_char(7) and
/usr/share/groff/current/font/devutf8/*.

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]