* Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@pps.jussieu.fr> [2004:03:09:19:30:37+0100] scribed: > > These are probably bugs in the manpages: They use '-' where '\-' > > should be used. > > It's a little more complicated than that. > > Both Unicode and roff distinguish between the hyphen (- in roff, > U+002D) and the minus sign (\- in roff, U+2010). > > If used with the right font, XTerm will display both. However, if > used with a Latin-1 font in Unicode mode, XTerm will only display the > minus sign correctly, and will fail to display a hyphen. > > So it is actually a bug in XTerm, which doesn't do glyph substitution. > Unfortunately, glyph substitution *cannot* be done with core fonts (an > X protocol weakness). > > So it is actually a bug in the X protocol. The only workaround is to > make sure that you use uxterm with a font that contains the hyphen > sign at position 0x2010. <snip /> OK, I give up! I use 9x15 almost everywhere. Please, suggest alternatives that meet this criterion . . . -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 877.596.8237 - Dare to fix things before they break . . . - Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . --
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