On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 01:12:41PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > The correct groff spelling of non-breaking spaces is '\ ' rather than an > ISO-8859-1 character. That said, note what 'info groff' says:
> (2) The last solution, i.e., using escaped spaces, is "classical" in > the sense that it can be found in most `troff' documents. > Nevertheless, it is not optimal in all situations, since `\ ' inserts a > fixed-width, non-breaking space character which can't stretch. > `gtroff' provides a different command `\~' to insert a stretchable, > non-breaking space. > Samba might not want to use the latter since it would be specific to > groff. > Aside from all of this, as soon as I get a chance to do so I would like > to investigate why Konqueror is misrendering this. In the most recent > version it's supposed to handle encodings correctly, but even in the > version Filipus is using it should have expected and correctly handled > ISO-8859-1. After a closer look I realize that man is also misrendering; the non-breaking spaces are being turned into zero-width non-breaking spaces, which isn't correct either :) So we should probably fix the html source to use instead of a literal iso8859-1 no-break space, and then try to work out afterwards whether fixes are needed to the toolchain. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]