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

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: misc/46784: "pretty" dashes in manpages make copying from
 manpages inadvisable
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 05:52:16 +0000

 On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 08:10:08PM +0000, S.P.Zeidler wrote:
  >  >  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)
 
 I see this behavior with nroff -mdoc (that is, groff) but not running
 mandoc. I though man(1) ran mandoc these days, but apparently it
 doesn't.
 
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 David A. Holland
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