Re: UTF-8 in copyright files?

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 07:44:35PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 07:00:26PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 05:22:36PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 04:38:23PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > > Yep, noticed that also, man simply removes the - from manpages,
> > > > which is a pain, as they get used pretty much in manpages.
> > > 
> > > See /etc/groff/{man,mdoc}.local. (And no, groff doesn't remove "-", it
> > 
> > Ok, will look.
> > 
> > > renders it as the Unicode HYPHEN character.)
> > 
> > Well, i most definitively cannot see it, and i am using a UTF-8 aware
> > xterm (uxterm if i am not wrong).
> 
> Try:
> 
>   printf - | groff -Tutf8 | grep .
> 
> then:
> 
>   printf - | groff -Tutf8 | grep . | od -tx1
> 
> I've seen a similar report before, but IIRC it turned out to be a
> terminal/font problem.

I get an invisible - for the first one, and then :

00000000 e2 80 90 0a
00000004

for the second one.

I choose fr_FR.UTF8 or something such in gnome GDM.

Friendly,

Sven Luther