Re: Manual pages and UTF-8
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 01:51:26PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2004-03-28 21:06:03 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > (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?
>
> And how about apostrophes? They get translated into some Unicode
> character and searching for strings containing an apostrophe no
> longer works.
You can always use LC_CTYPE=C ... really, pagers ought to be educated.
You can use similar tricks to those in
/usr/share/doc/groff/README.Debian on apostrophes if you like, though.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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