> moo.tinys wrote: >> >> using mintty >> LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8 mintty >> inside mintty: >> $ man man >> /- >> Pattern not found (press RETURN)
With UTF-8, hyphen/minus symbols in the man page are displays as the Unicode codepoints for hyphen or minus. These are different from ASCII '-', which is why your search didn't turn up anything. This isn't mintty-specific. Thomas Wolff: > This was discussed here before but I'm not sure whether a solution was > already outlined. > The problem appeared on Linux too, some years ago, but has been fixed > meanwhile. > Differences are: > man calls nroff -mandoc on cygwin, nroff -mandocdb on Linux. The latter > macro package of groff includes the following which is prepended to the > manual page before feeding it to nroff for formatting: > .if '\*[.T]'utf8' \{\ > . char \- \N'45' > . char - \N'45' > . char ' \N'39' > . char ` \N'96' > .\} Thanks, glad to hear there is a fix. I'll use this in the mintty manpage, so at least searching will work there. Question: what's the *[.T] pattern matched against? > Checking the program chain of 'man' with procps, some other macros are added > already (simply using 'echo'), that's where it could also be added without a > complete new macro package (i.e. without changing groff). However, the > auxiliary roff codes are apparently hard-coded in man.exe so that'll have to > be changed. What are those auxiliary roff codes? Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple