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Date:      Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:02:39 +0200
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>
To:        Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: nroff -man, .An Aq formatting
Message-ID:  <4BA5EEBF.2070603@icyb.net.ua>
In-Reply-To: <4BA5D7B0.8000507@bsdforen.de>
References:  <4BA5D7B0.8000507@bsdforen.de>

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on 21/03/2010 10:24 Dominic Fandrey said the following:
> 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.

Are you sure that they are even appropriate?
E.g. I think you won't be able to copy+paste such an address to any mail client.
My opinion is that ASCII angle brackets are the most appropriate here.

> Or else my terminal (rxvt-unicode) has trouble displaying them.
> 
> Does anybody know a workaround for this?
> 


-- 
Andriy Gapon



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