Phil Pennock wrote: > On 2007-11-18 at 17:16 -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote: > > $ grep 2019 groff-1.19.2/font/devutf8/R.proto > > ' 24 0 0x2019 > > Yeah, UTF-8 output in GNU nroff also uses fancy soft-break hyphens for > words split across lines which is all well and good I suppose, but the > character isn't supported in the default font used by PuTTY. (For which > the fix is to stop using Windows even as just a connectivity client for > getting to the machines where the real work happens.)
It's not just putty. I don't often look at manpages on Linux boxes remotely (all my remote machines are Solaris) so I'd never noticed this particular bit of idiocy, but just a moment ago I had cause to check something on my work desktop machine from home and ran into this... Both machines are running Ubuntu 7.10 and I'm using gnome-terminal. Locally it's fine, but displaying over ssh I get the hateful behaviour. I really don't care whether that's because it's remote or because there's a step in the middle (ssh to Solaris gateway box, ssh from there to desktop), it's still hateful. Matt -- * Matt McLeod | mail: m...@boggle.org | blog: http://abortrephrase.com/ * --- People can do the work, so machines have time to think ---
