Subject: UTF8 and nroff manpages
To: None <tech-misc@netbsd.org>
From: David Brownlee <abs@absd.org>
List: tech-misc
Date: 09/22/2005 15:55:26
 	If locale is en_US.UTF-8 then manpages do not display '-' as
 	'-', but instad as the hex sequence e2 88 92. You can easily
 	see this by comparing the output of
 		nroff -mandoc /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1
 	with LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 and undefined.

 	I can understand for text formatting that e2 88 92 may be a
 	'better' unicode entity for a hyphen, but for a manpage its
 	very much not.

 	Does anyone have any ideas?

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 			   David Brownlee -- abs@absd.org