Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 19:00:24 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Pepper <pepper@reppep.com> To: freebsd-www@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: www/39068: Hypertext man pages use strange hyphen at line-breaks Message-ID: <200303160300.h2G30OVC001338@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR www/39068; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Chris Pepper <pepper@reppep.com> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org Subject: Re: www/39068: Hypertext man pages use strange hyphen at line-breaks Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 21:55:41 -0500 At 3:13 AM +0200 2003/03/16, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >On 2002-06-09 11:11, Chris Pepper <pepper@rockefeller.edu> wrote: >> The hyphen used at end of line appears to be a decimal character >> 173, which doesn't display properly in Mozilla 1.0.0 or IE 5.1.4 >> under Mac OS X 10.1.5. Methinks it should be an entity if it's not > > below 128, and 173 is probably the wrong character anyway. >Does this still cause problems for you? I can't seem to be able to >locate any char(173) parts in the manpages. >Are you sure this isn't just a combination of a bug in the browsers >that you mentioned trying to do `smart' things and a specific font >selection that applies only to your local setup? I dunno, but I can't reproduce with Safari, Mozilla 1.2.1, or Netscape 7, so please close. Thanks, Chris Pepper -- Chris Pepper: <http://www.reppep.com/~pepper/>; Rockefeller University: <http://www.rockefeller.edu/>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-www" in the body of the message
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