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and subject line manpage incorrectly encodes \` and \'
has caused the Debian Bug report #480898,
regarding ed: manpage incorrectly encodes \` and \'
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: ed
Version: 0.2-20
Severity: minor
The ed(1) manpage causes incorrect quotation marks to appear in
unicode locales for the \` and \' options, which the following small
patch fixes:
--- broke/ed.1 2008-05-12 16:58:37.000000000 +0100
+++ fixed/ed.1 2008-05-12 17:01:15.000000000 +0100
@@ -468,10 +468,10 @@
syntax.
.HP
-\fR\e`\fR
+\fR\e\`\fR
.TP 8
-\fR\e'\fR
-Unconditionally matches the beginning (\e`) or ending (\e') of a line.
+\fR\e\(aq\fR
+Unconditionally matches the beginning (\e\`) or ending (\e\(aq) of a line.
.TP 8
\fR\e?\fR
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages ed depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ed recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
I have applied the patch to \` but not to \' because the proposed change
seems not to be portable. See
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=457839
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