Re: bin/46784

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

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

From: "S.P.Zeidler" <spz%serpens.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/46784
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 11:32:48 +0200

 Thus wrote David Holland (dholland-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost):
 
 >   >  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.
 >  
 >  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.
 
 It depends on what's in your man.conf; the -current man.conf makes man use
 mandoc.
 
 Since the issue only hits people with an old man.conf who use UTF-8
 locales (i.e. not the default new user) I have changed the priority to
 low.
 
 regards,
        spz
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