Re: Problems with - and ' in some man-pages
ke, 2005-03-02 kello 22:45 +0100, Bernd Eckenfels kirjoitti:
> In article <[🔎] 20050302204212.GD2652@b-tk.org> you wrote:
> > Unicode. If people want to use Unicode, this is fine;
> > Unicode and utf-8 exist to be used, after all. However,
> > restricted character sets (mainly ascii and Latin-1)
> > offer several real practical benefits
>
> I dont think it is fine to use the wrong character for options. The command
> option character in the man page must be the same which is used at the
> command line.
If the manual page source says \- instead of - (as it properly should,
so that when typeset for hardcopy output) then a proper ASCII minus
character is printed.
The problem occurs when manual pages use unescaped minuses in the
input and groff thinks it should output Unicode characters for hyphens.
For terminal output, I wish it wouldn't.
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