On 2004-03-29 17:04:08 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 05:04:07PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > So, do you mean the trick consisting in editing /etc/groff/man.local
> > and /etc/groff/mdoc.local? What if one doesn't have a root access?
>
> You can use ~/man.local and ~/mdo
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 05:04:07PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2004-03-29 15:16:58 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > pod2man doesn't preclude this. It's only configuration for your local
> > system.
>
> I thought you meant a trick consisting in generating something in a
> man page to prevent t
On 2004-03-29 15:16:58 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 03:37:11PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > On 2004-03-29 14:17:52 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 01:51:26PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > > > And how about apostrophes? They get translated in
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 03:37:11PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2004-03-29 14:17:52 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 01:51:26PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > > And how about apostrophes? They get translated into some Unicode
> > > character and searching for strings
On 2004-03-29 14:17:52 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 01:51:26PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > And how about apostrophes? They get translated into some Unicode
> > character and searching for strings containing an apostrophe no
> > longer works.
>
> You can always use LC_
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 01:51:26PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2004-03-28 21:06:03 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > (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 pag
On 2004-03-28 21:06:03 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> (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?
And how about apostrophe
* Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004:03:28:21:06:03+0100] scribed:
> 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 "it
On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 10:25:42PM +0200, Per Olofsson wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 22:21 +0200, Per Olofsson wrote:
> > I also see that you consider it a bug when manual pages use "-"
> > instead of "\-".
>
> Not in every case of course - only when they really mean dashes and
> not hyphens.
On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 22:21 +0200, Per Olofsson wrote:
> I also see that you consider it a bug when manual pages use "-"
> instead of "\-".
Not in every case of course - only when they really mean dashes and
not hyphens.
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On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 21:06 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> (a) Please see /usr/share/doc/groff/README.Debian;
I had missed that one, but I had read a mailing list discussion about
it.
> (b) it shouldn't actually garble them, merely display Unicode
> HYPHEN-MINUS,
Yes, I know.
> so what versions
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; i
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