Jörg Sommer wrote:
> Package: manpages
> Version: 2.80-1
> Severity: normal
>
> Hi,
>
> % LC_ALL=C man ascii G 047 | awk '{print $4;}' | hexdump
> 0000000 270a
> ^^
>
> % LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8 man ascii G 047 | awk '{print $4;}' | hexdump
> 0000000 c2b4 0a00
> ^^^^
>
> I think you must tell roff that you really mean the character 0x27.
Arjan Opmeer wrote:
>
> Looking at the man page I see that the escaped version of some characters
> are used.
>
> \e for \ (which won't work when the escape character is redefined)
> \&_ for _ what is that non-printable, zero width character doing there?
> \` for ` but the escaped version maps to the grave accent
> \' for ' but the escaped version maps to the acute accent
> \- for - why? we want the real minus character, not some hyphen
>
> As UTF8 and all the ISO-8859-x fonts have the standard ASCII character set
> at the beginning, why not use the real ASCII characters in this man page?
> After all, it is about the ASCII set now how you could pretty format that on
> some output device.
I have to admit that I'm lost here.
Regards,
Joey
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