Hello groff list,
I have observed that groff changes certain characters in manpages. I have talked about that in Suse's/Novells bugzilla and should discuss it here. For example, in perlcheat.1, the $| is changed into '$' and a vertical bar if the locale is UTF-8. real: | (U+0x7C) output: â (U+0x2502) This also to a number of other characters, including the backward apostrophe (accent grave) ` (0x60) which is transformed into â (U+0x2018). This is very bad for copy+paste, and if your screen font does not have all the UTF8 characters (especially the case on bare 80x25 tty1 terminal), it does not even show any apostrophe, but a block to indicate that 0x2018 is not available in this font. Is this a (big) bug in groff, or intention? Jan Engelhardt --
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