On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > > the manpage was not using a regular ascii '-', but instead one of > > > the HYPEN, or EM_DASH things (Which is why i HATE them). > > > > > you can configure the way your 'man' works in man.config. You can > > set NROFF to use '-Tascii -man' and you get 'ASCII approximation' of > > real em_dash, hyphen etc so that you can copy and paste and search
> A better temporary solution is to add the following to man.local: > > .if '\*[.T]'utf8' \ > . char \- \N'45' Thanks. It worked great. Neither of Mandrake 9 and RH 8 has this in man.local. I guess they should. Jungshik -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/