Problems with - and ' in some man-pages

[Eric Lavarde <Eric.Lavarde@bawue.de>]

Hi,

in some man pages (e.g. ImageMagick, dh_installmime but I've met other 
ones), the dashes and single quotes are not really what they look like, 
but some other unicode letter.
This has two major drawbacks:
- search for options become nearly impossible (try searching for -m, 
without using -).
- cut&paste doesn't work.
(this has also the drawback that not all fonts have the said characters, 
but that's all right)

I'm pretty sure, it's somehow due to the fact that I have set 
LANG=en_IE.UTF-8 (unicode being important of course).
Nevertheless, I don't know if it's a problem of the manpage system or of 
the manpage writers, and how the writers could circumvent/solve the 
problem. And this information would be useful before I start filing 
bugs, or!?

Thanks for any help,
Eric

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