Re: Man and UTF-8.
Nicolas Alvarez <nicolas.alvarez@gmail.com> writes:
> Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Nicolas Alvarez <nicolas.alvarez@gmail.com> writes:
>>> What about double quotes?
>>> quilt's manpage renders like this in the man viewer: ``pushed on the
>>> stack''
>>> I looked at the source and the .1 file has exactly those characters
>>> too. So what should it have to get them converted into nice-looking
>>> Unicode quotes?
>> Use troff to render the man page into PostScript instead of using nroff
>> to view it. I don't believe nroff converts double quotes.
> So much about it being a feature of the format, then. If ``'' means
> quotes in the roff format and nroff can't output Unicode, it should be
> converting them to something sane like "".
`` and '' aren't documented in the troff paper that I could find, so I'm
not sure that they're a formal feature of the format in the same way that
- becoming a hyphen is (the latter is documented). However, I may be
missing where it's documented.
`` and '' have been converted to paired quotes by troff for years, though,
so it is a commonly-implemented feature of the underlying format. I would
call this a substandard rendering of the quotes by the nroff front-end,
not a deficiency in the format.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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