What is being used to generate the HTML output?  Perhaps a character code
in the application is not set to generate the hyphen but instead generates
the dash?  Maybe someone changed the character set being used?

Mark

On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 11:04 AM andy pugh <bodge...@gmail.com> wrote:

> It has become evident that the online LinuxCNC docs in some cases (but
> not all) are displaying en-dashes in place of hyphens in HAL pin
> names.
>
> ie, what should be a 2D is an E2 88 92
>
> For example: http://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.8/html/man/man1/halui.1.html
>
> has: halui.tool.length−offset.a float out
> But should be: halui.tool.length-offset.a float out
>
> If I (and others) generate the HTML locally we get the correct output.
>
> Has anyone any idea what might be going on? It is more than just an
> æsthetic problem, it means that copy-pasted hal snippets don't work.
>
> --
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