On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 12:40:09PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > >In many different man pages characters that should probably be some form > >of quote are displayed as a Z with an inverted caret on top. > > Can you give me an example page where you see this so that I can try to > reproduce it? It sounds like your fonts aren't doing the right thing > with Latin-1 characters.
Any page that contains \' in the source will do. In fact, man man shows the result in describing the -7 option. The xpdf manpage also shows the problem. > Also have a look at the description of the -7 option in man(1) and see > if that's helpful. Yes, if I use the -7 option, things work correctly. Now, I have looked at the character sets using gcharmap, and it turns out that iso-8859-1 and iso-8859-15 differ in more than one place. I always thought the only difference was in the € (euro) sign, but character 180, the acute accent in latin1, is the Z-with-inverted-caret in iso-8859-15. I have tried this with several different fonts. The tables on http://czyborra.com/charsets/iso8859.html confirm this, and show that even more characters are different. So it seems none of these pages will display correctly in a locale that uses iso-8859-15 (and others in the iso-8859 series). IMHO, all these pages use this character incorrectly. The acute accent is not a quote character. Neither is the grave accent, of course, although that one often shows up looking like a starting quote. Oh well. -- Note that I use Debian version 3.0 Linux mus 2.4.17mvz4 #1 Fri Mar 15 23:30:15 CET 2002 i686 unknown Matijs van Zuijlen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
