On 21/03/2010 11:02, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 21/03/2010 10:24 Dominic Fandrey said the following: >> It has come to my attention that whereas with LANG=C "nroff -man" >> formats ".An name Aq email" as "name <email>", it uses different >> characters with LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 "name ⟨email⟩". These characters >> are appropriate, but a lot of unicode fonts don't seem to have them. > > Are you sure that they are even appropriate? > E.g. I think you won't be able to copy+paste such an address to any mail > client.
Well, that's just how I got them into the mail. I copied them out of the terminal, that displays a square instead of the characters, into my mail client, which displays them just fine. > My opinion is that ASCII angle brackets are the most appropriate here. I don't know about that, but they sure would be most convenient. -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
