Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:20:26 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nroff -man, .An Aq formatting Message-ID: <4BA6C5DA.6040100@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4BA5D7B0.8000507@bsdforen.de> References: <4BA5D7B0.8000507@bsdforen.de>
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On 03/21/10 01:24, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > It has come to my attention that whereas with LANG=C "nroff -man" > formats ".An name Aq email" as "name <email>", 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. > > Or else my terminal (rxvt-unicode) has trouble displaying them. > > Does anybody know a workaround for this? AFAIK our standard is -mdoc, not -man. Is there a specific purpose for which you need -man? And if not does the problem exist with -mdoc? You might also want to take this up on freebsd-doc. hth, Doug -- ... and that's just a little bit of history repeating. -- Propellerheads Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/
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