> On Mon, 2015-01-26 at 10:38 +0200, sam...@openvpn.net wrote:
>> From: Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta <a...@inittab.org>
>>
>> This patch continues the work started in commit 886593ac4ae ("The man page
>> needs
>> dash escaping in UTF-8 environments"). This patch is one of the patches
>> included
>> in Debian's OpenVPN packages.
> Note that this isn't perfect either. The escaped \- is supposedly
> rendered as a minus sign... but you don't actually *want* a minus sign.
>
> If you ever render the manual into HTML, that's exactly what you'll
> get: U+2212 MINUS SIGN. I've had users complaining to me because when
> they cut and paste from an HTML-rendered man page, their command lines
> don't work.
>
> What you really want is U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS¹. I think it could actually
> be considered a groff bug if you *do* get U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS in the
> UTF-8 terminal output — it should be U+2212 MINUS SIGN there too,
> according to the definition.
>
> FWIW I *can* search for 'For --management-client' even before this
> patch, on Fedora 21. Changing to \- isn't required to fix the searching
> here. Is it still required on Debian?
>
Hi,The original problem seemed to be that strings like "--win-sys" could not be found from the man-page unless the dashes were escaped: <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=296133> I tried to reproduce the problem on Ubuntu 14.04, Debian 6 and CentOS 6 and was unable to. Having or not having escaped dashes made absolutely no difference. Note that I only tested "less" as the pager. In any case, it looks like the problem got fixed outside of OpenVPN, which leaves us with an inconsistent escaping style on the man-page. -- Samuli Seppänen Community Manager OpenVPN Technologies, Inc irc freenode net: mattock
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