Hello Ingo and Anthony, > That shouldn't happen in manual pages. Both tmac/an-old.tmac > and tmac/doc.tmac contain: > > .\" For UTF-8, map some characters conservatively for the sake > .\" of easy cut and paste. > . > .if '\*[.T]'utf8' \{\ > . rchar \- - ' ` > . > . char \- \N'45' > . char - \N'45' > . char ' \N'39' > . char ` \N'96' > .\}
it indeed works with -mdoc (didn't test -man). I use -mdoc for manpages too but in case of my document a manpage is not the suited format, it's rather in a book format which I view with nroff. So for GNU nroff I'll inlcude the above statements in my document... Thanks, Carsten