Eric Lavarde wrote: > Package: debhelper > Version: 4.2.30 > Severity: minor > > > Hi, > > the dh_installmime man page contains "mimeâsupport and sharedâmimeâinfo" > with some unicode dash characters. This should be real dashes so that > cut&paste properly works with a unicode charset. > > >From asking on debian-devel, the solution is: > > > This is a bug in the manpages themselves. The unformatted source > > should have - for hyphenating normal prose, as in "happy-go-lucky", and \- > > to denote the minus signs used as characters on the command line and > > other such places.
I don't know of any way to do that with man pages that are generated from POD documentation, as are all the man pages in debhelper. As far as I can see, this is a bug in perl. -- see shy jo
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