Re: misc/46784: "pretty" dashes in manpages make copying from manpages inadvisable

["S.P.Zeidler" <spz%serpens.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR misc/46784; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "S.P.Zeidler" <spz%serpens.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: misc/46784: "pretty" dashes in manpages make copying from
 manpages inadvisable
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 22:07:47 +0200

 Thus wrote Martin Husemann (martin%duskware.de@localhost):
 
 >  Please describe a bit more of your environment and what "copied from the
 >  man page" actually means.
 
 X cut & paste, from/to xterms
 
 The problematic behaviour seems to be a result of using an UTF8 LC_CTYPE.
 With LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 or LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 I get e2 88 92 as dash
 instead of 2d.
 
 (As checked via man echo > echo.out; hexdump -C echo.out)
 
 regards,
        spz
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