Control: tag -1 upstream On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 08:19:54AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Package: perl-doc > Version: 5.36.0-7 > Severity: minor > File: /usr/share/man/man1/perlretut.1.gz > > These lines with only a NO-BREAK SPACE on them serve no purpose, and > just look funny in e.g., emacs. Also they only occur on this man page. > $ for i in perl perlre perlretut; do man -w $i | > xargs zcat|uni2ascii -q|grep -c ^0x00A0$; done > 0 > 0 > 15 > Emacs should be thanked for detecting it.
These were explicitly added in the source pod file as E<nbsp> entities in https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/15776bb0ab4 It looks like the reasoning was that this "fixes some numbered lists to display not so uglily". -- Niko Tyni [email protected]
