On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 09:41:42PM +0200, Per Olofsson wrote: > I'm running with an UTF-8 locale and this causes minus signs (dashes) > in many manual pages to become garbled. It only seems to happen in > text in the "italic" style, i.e. the ".I" macro. It also only happens > to bare minus signs; if they are written as "\-", it works fine. Try, > for example, "man jed" with an UTF-8 locale. > > Am I doing something wrong? Does it work better for anyone else? Or is > it a bug in these manual pages, or perhaps in man-db or groff?
(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? Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
