Bug#276547: texinfo: @samp{} text should change - to \- in man pages

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 14.10.04 Andrew Moise (chops@demiurgestudios.com) wrote:

Dear Andrew,

Another time wiht bug in Cc.

> Package: texinfo
> Version: 4.7-2.2
> Severity: minor
> 
>   man currently renders bare "-" characters as the slightly different
> "???" character in UTF-8 locales; you have to give it "\-" in order to
> get an actual ASCII hyphen.  Given this, IMHO texinfo should emit \-
> when it encounters - within a @samp{} block.  This just bit me with
> CVS; I tried to search for "-n" within cvs(1) and got nothing.  CVS's
> man page is generated by texinfo.
> 
Would you be so kind to check if this is still the case for the
texinfo from unstable?

Thanks,
  Hilmar
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