Re: Manual pages and UTF-8
On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 09:41:42PM +0200, Per Olofsson wrote:
> I'm running with an UTF-8 locale and this causes minus signs (dashes)
> in many manual pages to become garbled. It only seems to happen in
> text in the "italic" style, i.e. the ".I" macro. It also only happens
> to bare minus signs; if they are written as "\-", it works fine. Try,
> for example, "man jed" with an UTF-8 locale.
>
> Am I doing something wrong? Does it work better for anyone else? Or is
> it a bug in these manual pages, or perhaps in man-db or groff?
(a) Please see /usr/share/doc/groff/README.Debian; (b) it shouldn't
actually garble them, merely display Unicode HYPHEN-MINUS, so what
versions of man-db, groff, your pager, and your terminal emulator are
you using?
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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