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Re: manpage character cleanup for UTF-8 compatibility



* Anthony DeRobertis <asd@suespammers.org> [20030326 09:31 PST]:
> On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 22:50, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> 
> > Right.  That would help usability in the short term, but it feels more
> > like a workaround than a fix. 
> 
> Why should a user have to know the difference between a minus sign, en
> dash, em dash, hyphen, etc. to search a manpage? They all look
> approximately the same --- just different lengths, and sometimes
> different vertical position and width.

I agree that this is a UI improvement for the pager, but I don't think
it fully addresses the issue of using the wrong characters, specifically
because of the copy-paste problem.

good times,
Vineet
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