>>>>> Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> writes:
[…]
> But a hyphens looks nicer when it is thin; \[u2012] achieves this.
> What you really want to do is to change your groff input so that it
> uses
> * - for hyphens,
> * \- for minus signs.
> Example:
> \fBiconv \-f ISO\-8859\-1 \-t UTF\-8\fP
> converts input from the old West-European encoding ISO\-8859\-1 to
> Unicode.
Do I understand it correctly that this will produce U+2212
(MINUS SIGN) in the example command line? Wouldn't it prevent
this example from working should one copy it (from either $ man,
or a PDF) to the command-line interpreter?
Arguably, all the /code/ fragments (including Shell code
fragments) should produce ASCII APOSTROPHE's, HYPHEN-MINUS'es
and GRAVE ACCEPT's on the output (unless, of course, the
programming language in question demands the similar Unicode
characters by itself.)
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