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Date:      Thu, 21 May 2009 21:08:41 +0200
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
To:        =?UTF-8?Q?Dag=2DErling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r192561 - head/contrib/groff/font/devutf8
Message-ID:  <9bbcef730905211208k26d6e809s4e6cff0f987d9cd4@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <863aay2uso.fsf@ds4.des.no>
References:  <200905211756.n4LHu0Gf074528@svn.freebsd.org> <863aay2uso.fsf@ds4.des.no>

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2009/5/21 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav <des@des.no>:
> Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>> Log:
>> =C2=A0 When man pages are formatted in UTF-8, .Fl is encoded as U+2212 "=
MINUS
>> =C2=A0 SIGN" instead of U+002D "HYPHEN-MINUS". =C2=A0This is unfortunate=
 for two
>> =C2=A0 reasons: 1) this is not the character which is actually used on t=
he
>> =C2=A0 command line, and 2) it makes it impossible to search a man page =
for a
>> =C2=A0 specific command-line option.
>> =C2=A0 [...]
>
> This should have been committed (and MFCed) along with r183696-r183698.

And here I was thinking it was done to hurry up UTF-8 support on the consol=
e :)



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