Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:05:48 +0100 From: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nroff -man, .An Aq formatting Message-ID: <4BA5FD8C.5060709@bsdforen.de> In-Reply-To: <4BA5EEBF.2070603@icyb.net.ua> References: <4BA5D7B0.8000507@bsdforen.de> <4BA5EEBF.2070603@icyb.net.ua>
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On 21/03/2010 11:02, Andriy Gapon wrote: > 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. Well, that's just how I got them into the mail. I copied them out of the terminal, that displays a square instead of the characters, into my mail client, which displays them just fine. > My opinion is that ASCII angle brackets are the most appropriate here. I don't know about that, but they sure would be most convenient. -- 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?
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