On Sun, 3 Jan 2010, Ulrich Spörlein wrote:
On Fri, 01.01.2010 at 15:47:36 -0800, Derek Kulinski wrote:
Hello,
After installing FreeBSD 8.0 I noticed that some characters aren't
displayed correctly (it worked fine for 7.2).
Mainly the dash character is most noticeable (though it's possible
it's more of them).
Example:
env LANG=C man sh
env LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8 man sh
env LANG=en_US.UTF-8 man sh
The first command shows everything fine, the later two seem to show
some unprintable character in place of every dash (i.e. in the second
paragraph word "built-in", or the dashes that break up the words at
the end of the line)
me too, though I'm only setting LC_CTYPE to de_DE.UTF-8 and I don't
always see it. It must be some combination of xterm/ssh and/or putty
that breaks this.
On the other hand, I thought there was a commit done, that would
render - (the dash) always as - (0x2d) so you can copy&paste the
examples from the manpage into your shell.
But perhaps I was just dreaming this up?
The last commit that I recall (r192561) fixed dashes in front of options
(.Fl macro) but not dashes present within a man page. Personally, I
just create an alias for man to call 'LANG=C man' to protect against
examples with non-ASCII (U+002D) dashes.
Read the commit message[1] for a better explanation of unresolved
issues.
Sean
1. http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=192561
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