From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 23 07:36:53 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD6A31065675 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 07:36:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kamikaze@bsdforen.de) Received: from mail.bsdforen.de (bsdforen.de [212.204.60.79]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7080A8FC0A for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 07:36:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mobileKamikaze.norad (unknown [109.250.238.63]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.bsdforen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id C33FB8A190B for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:36:51 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4BA86F8F.1030807@bsdforen.de> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:36:47 +0100 From: Dominic Fandrey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100302 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <4BA5D7B0.8000507@bsdforen.de> <4BA6C5DA.6040100@FreeBSD.org> <86634ojxl7.fsf@ds4.des.no> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: nroff -man, .An Aq formatting X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 07:36:53 -0000 On 22/03/2010 16:05, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > >>>> It has come to my attention that whereas with LANG=C "nroff -man" >>>> formats ".An name Aq email" as "name ", it uses different >>>> characters with LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 "name ⟨email⟩". These characters >>>> are appropriate, but a lot of unicode fonts don't seem to have them. >> >> This is definitely a bug, since (as avg@ points out) you can no longer >> copy-paste the name & address into an email client. >> >> AFAIK (judging from the Unicode group they're in) these characters are >> intended mainly for writing things like and + in >> technical documentation. > > And we probably have that usage in other man pages. It is not clear > to me if the problem is the use of these characters for angle quotes > or the use of .Aq for email addresses. I got it out of the wpi(4) manual first. It probably appears in other places, too. -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?