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Date:      Mon, 9 Feb 2009 16:48:06 +0300
From:      Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru>
To:        Anonymous <swell.k@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Bad unicode `-' in manpages
Message-ID:  <20090209134806.GF17600@hades.panopticon>
In-Reply-To: <867i43742t.fsf@gmail.com>
References:  <20090206183344.GE17600@hades.panopticon> <867i43742t.fsf@gmail.com>

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* Anonymous (swell.k@gmail.com) wrote:

> Have you tried to change locale to `C' or invoke man(1) with `-o'?

Yes, they both result in the old behaviour with correct `-'.

> Anyway, same here, but I vaguely remember it first appeared about half a

I'm only using current for couple of weeks, so it's new to me.

> year ago. And I think it can cause trouble when trying to view localized
> man page written in unicode when you can't escape to either `C' locale
> or `-o' option.

Agreed. But actually you shouldn't need to specify extra arguments to
man or change locale to view /correct/ man page, so I think it should be
fixed.

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