Package: man-db
Version: 2.5.2-3
Severity: minor

When displaying dash(1) in an en_GB.UTF-8 locale in an rxvt-unicode
terminal, the following line is incorrectly wrapped:

     the exception of newline.  A backslash preceding a < newline > is treated 
as

I have used < and > to indicate the characters that man writes to either
side of the word "newline", but which I can't copy and paste into my
8-bit editor. It seems to be on account of these characters that the
wrapping calculation goes wrong, and the final character of the line
(the "s" of "as") ends up on the following physical line of the
terminal. As far as I can see, the quote characters mentioned above are
calculated as being single-width but displayed over two character cells.

The problem persists if I change my terminal font from fixed (bitmap) to
DejaVu Sans, and also if I change my terminal emulator to uxterm (in
which case when using fixed it uses different characters, or possibly a
different font, for the quote characters, but with the same width
problem.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages man-db depends on:
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ii  dpkg                   1.14.23           Debian package management system
ii  groff-base             1.18.1.1-21       GNU troff text-formatting system (
ii  libc6                  2.7-16            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgdbm3               1.8.3-3           GNU dbm database routines (runtime
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

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