Re: nroff -man, .An Aq formatting

2010-03-23 Thread Dominic Fandrey
On 22/03/2010 02:20, Doug Barton wrote: > On 03/21/10 01:24, Dominic Fandrey wrote: >> It has come to my attention that whereas with LANG=C "nroff -man" >> formats ".An name Aq email" as "name ", it uses different >> characters with LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 "name ⟨email⟩". These characters >> are appropria

Re: nroff -man, .An Aq formatting

2010-03-23 Thread Dominic Fandrey
On 22/03/2010 16:05, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > It has come to my attention that whereas with LANG=C "nroff -man" formats ".An name Aq email" as "name ", it uses different characters with LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 "name ⟨email⟩". These characters are app

Re: nroff -man, .An Aq formatting

2010-03-22 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 03:05:52PM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > And we probably have that usage in other man pages. It is not clear > to me if the problem is the use of these characters for angle quotes > or the use of .Aq for email addresses. I think the best option would be to sit down

Re: nroff -man, .An Aq formatting

2010-03-22 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > > > It has come to my attention that whereas with LANG=C "nroff -man" > > > formats ".An name Aq email" as "name ", 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 t

Re: nroff -man, .An Aq formatting

2010-03-22 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Doug Barton writes: > Dominic Fandrey writes: > > It has come to my attention that whereas with LANG=C "nroff -man" > > formats ".An name Aq email" as "name ", it uses different > > characters with LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 "name ⟨email⟩". These characters > > are appropriate, but a lot of unicode fonts d

Re: nroff -man, .An Aq formatting

2010-03-21 Thread Doug Barton
On 03/21/10 01:24, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > It has come to my attention that whereas with LANG=C "nroff -man" > formats ".An name Aq email" as "name ", 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 h

Re: nroff -man, .An Aq formatting

2010-03-21 Thread Dominic Fandrey
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 ", it uses different >> characters with LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 "name ⟨email⟩". These characters >

Re: nroff -man, .An Aq formatting

2010-03-21 Thread Andriy Gapon
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 ", it uses different > characters with LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 "name ⟨email⟩". These characters > are appropriate, but a lot of unicode fonts d

nroff -man, .An Aq formatting

2010-03-21 Thread Dominic Fandrey
It has come to my attention that whereas with LANG=C "nroff -man" formats ".An name Aq email" as "name ", 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. Or else my terminal (rxvt-unicode) has