Bug#292013: iconv(1) unescaped hyphens patch

[GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>]

At Fri, 11 Feb 2005 07:34:19 +0200,
Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> Attached please find a very simple patch for
> debian/local/manpages/iconv.1 to convert unescaped hyphens to escaped
> ones. This means that man won't create troublesome Unicode characters
> when it operates in a Unicode locale.

Exactly.  I put it into svn, thanks.

> I patched iconv.1 instead of iconv.pod because I don't see in perlpod(1)
> a way to specify hyphen escaping properly. I'm willing to clean up the
> manual page to follow proper formatting (e.g., the option listing), if I
> can do it by removing the .pod version completely and creating the .1
> version directly.
> 
> Anyway, this patch is minimal, and works to fix the bug in question.

If you wish to remove .pod version - please feel free to send patches.
.pod has some ".ds -- ..." definition entries - so you can choose to
clean it up either removing such definition or using \*(-- macro.

> @@ -252,7 +252,7 @@
>  
>  .rn }` ''
>  .IX Title "ICONV 1"
> -.IX Name "iconv - Convert encoding of given files from one encoding to another"
> +.IX Name "iconv \- Convert encoding of given files from one encoding to another"

I think we don't need to clean up this hyphen.  So I remove backquotes
in the title line instead of adding quotation for the above line.

Regards,
-- gotom