I just ran into this problem on Ubuntu 14.04. I needed to write ASCII
symbol \x27 in a file. Not remembering exactly which symbol that is, I
used the ascii man page and copied the symbol listed as hexadecimal 27
to the target file. It turns out that does not work because the symbol
shown in the asc
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: groff (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/272290
Title:
Man p
** Attachment added: "The patch I mentioned."
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/17769266/groff-1.19.2-sane-ascii-characters.patch
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Man pages show wrong Unicode characters instead of ASCII
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/272290
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