Re: Hyphens in man pages are no longer hyphens

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 12:50:05PM -0700, Sverre Froyen wrote:
> For I while now I have been using "LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8" in my .profile.  I 
> recently noticed that I can no longer copy and paste commands containing 
> hyphens from a man page because the hyphens get formatted as "342 200 220" 
> (from od -c /usr/share/man/cat1/send-pr.0).  Unsetting LC_TYPE results in man 
> pages containing regular hyphens.  The strange thing, however, is that this 
> used to work.  With LC_TYPE set.  Formatted man pages from a catman on 22 
> Nov. 
> contain normal hyphens whereas current as of a week ago produce the UTF-8 
> specific hyphens.  Does anyone know what changed?  Is there a way to restore 
> the old behavior?

I don't think this changed recently... IIRC it has been like you
describe as "new" for a long time.
 Thomas